hospital infection News
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HiberGene Diagnostics introduces brand new UK division at NEQAS event
HiberGene Diagnostics, the leading manufacturer of molecular diagnostics products in Ireland, is pleased to announce that it will supply its innovative point-of-care (POC) and near-patient testing solutions directly to healthcare providers in the UK and Ireland. These high-quality testing solutions cover infectious and transmissible disease areas – including respiratory, sexually ...
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CMS Close to Beginning Hospital Infection Control Inspections
According to recent reports, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) are currently finalizing their hospital control survey. Once complete, the CMS is expected to conduct hospital infection control inspections in the near future. Some in the industry see these actions as a likely prelude to forthcoming regulations meant to prevent healthcare-associated infections (HAIs). ...
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Mid-Atlantic Healthcare Professionals Turn to SEHC to Battle Hospital Acquired Infections
Hospital administrators and infection control professionals know firsthand the dangers of hospital acquired infections (HAIs). Many of these infections are due to Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureas (MRSA), Clostridium difficile and other potentially deadly pathogens. A number of these infectious agents are spread through contact or airborne transmissions. Additional routes of ...
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Illinois Makes Hospital Acquired Infection Data Available
Earlier this month, the Illinois Department of Public Health (IDPH) announced updates to the state’s Hospital Report Card and Consumer Guide to Healthcare Website. The new updates include information about hospital acquired infection prevention and control staffing. According to Dr. Arnold, IDPH Director, “It is vital that consumers have a solid understanding about the quality of ...
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TriMedika Wins Innovate UK Women in Innovation Awards
Dr. Roisin Molloy, CEO, and co-founder of TriMedika; an innovative medical technology manufacturer, supplying the most accurate hospital-grade non-contact thermometers to hospitals worldwide, based in Belfast. Innovate UK launched Women in Innovation in 2016, after research revealed that just 1 in 7 applications for Innovate UK support came from women. Boosting the number of female entrepreneurs ...
By TriMedika
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Illinois Same-Day Surgery Centers under the Spotlight
Earlier this month, the Northwest Herald reported about the state of infection control at same-day surgical centers across Illinois. According to the article, of the surgery centers inspected in the past year, 2/3 had been cited for infection control problems. News of these infection control problems coincide with a new federal report that was just released that shows an increase in ...
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New Vitassay Rapid Test for SARS-CoV-2 detection
The new Vitassay SARS-CoV-2 is a rapid, immunochromatographic, one step assay for the qualitative detection of SARS-CoV-2 from nasopharyngeal samples. Simple and highly sensitivity immunoassay for professional in vitro use only. SARS-CoV-2 infection can affect individuals of any age. The disease currently causes an overwhelming hospitalization of infected patients, presenting symptoms such as ...
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Possible MRSA Outbreak at a Public Pool in Arizona
Three girls recently became infected with Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureas (MRSA) in the small town of Safford, Arizona. According to the news report in the Eastern Arizona Courier, all three had spent time at a local public pool frequented by area residents to escape the Arizona summer heat. This is not the first time that MRSA has been linked with swimming activities. Back in ...
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Frost & Sullivan awards N8 Medical New Product Innovation Award for its Platform Medical Device Technology to Prevent Hospital-Acquired Infections
N8 Medical, LLC (N8 Medical) today announced it has been selected as the winner of a North American New Product Innovation Award by Frost & Sullivan, a leader in global research and consulting solutions. N8 Medical is developing disruptive medical devices that prevent hospital-acquired infections and their expensive and potentially fatal consequences. N8 Medical earned the award for its ...
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Flu & MRSA Combination Results in Two Deaths in One Family
In April, Fox News published a story about the deaths of three people from a family in Maryland. All three died of flu complications, but two family members were also infected with MRSA. Additional family members were also sickened with the flu, but did not succumb to the illness and did not test positive for MRSA according to researchers from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ...
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Proven Solutions to Disinfect Hospital HVAC Coils
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), “Healthcare-associated infections (HAI) are infections caused by a wide variety of common and unusual bacteria, fungi, and viruses during the course of receiving medical care. Medical advances have brought lifesaving care to patients in need, yet many of those advances come with a risk of HAI. These infections related to ...
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Multidrug-resistant bacteria remain a public health issue in Europe
On the occasion of the European Antibiotic Awareness Day, ECDC is releasing new European-wide surveillance data on antibiotic resistance from the European Antimicrobial Resistance Surveillance Network (EARS-Net). With annually up to 400,000 patients reported to suffer from infections resistant to multiple antibiotics, the data show that antibiotic resistance remains a public health problem across ...
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Possible MRSA Outbreak at Popular Arizona Pool
Three girls recently became infected with Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureas (MRSA) in the small town of Safford, Arizona. According to a news report in the Eastern Arizona Courier, all three had spent time at a local public pool frequented by area residents to escape the Arizona summer heat. This is not the first time that MRSA has been linked with swimming activities. Back in 2009, ...
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Members of Maryland Family who Died had Influenza and MRSA
Last month, Fox News reported that three members of the same Maryland family had died of flu complications. Two of the three people who died had also been infected with methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA). The news came from researchers from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The three individuals included a mother and her two grown children. Additional ...
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Hospitals Battle Healthcare Acquired Infections (HAIs)
An article in the August issue of Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology discusses how researchers identified contaminated nasal spray as the cause of an outbreak of Burkholderia cepacia in patients at a Denver children’s hospital. A recent news story from WLWT last week reported on the source of a Legionnaires’ disease outbreak at an Ohio hospital in 2010. WHEC in New York ...
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MRSA infections occur more in summer and fall
MRSA, methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, occurs more frequently in the summer and fall, according to new research. Dr. Leonard Mermel, lead author and medical director of the department of epidemiology and infection control at Rhode Island Hospital in Providence, and his team analyzed MRSA samples from the hospitals microbiology department that were taken over a 10-year period. Their ...
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Environmental contamination as a potential source of MRSA transmission
Ehsanollah Ghaznavi-Rad, MSc, of the Department of Medical Microbiology and Parasitology at the Universiti Putra Malaysia, and colleagues, report in a research brief in Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology on a study they conducted to trace the source of nosocomial transmission of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) by investigating the impact of healthcare workers and the ...
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UVD Robots Joins Ecolab to Fight Hospital Acquired Infections
As new coronavirus variants continue to mutate and spread, the growth in demand for infection prevention solutions using UV-C light is projected to reach $18.94 billion by 2030, witnessing an annual growth rate of 59.7% from 2021 to 2030. Further fueling the demand is the rise in hospital acquired infections (HAIs) that globally cause more fatalities due to the increase in antibiotic resistance ...
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Michigan School Closed Due to MRSA Infections
Last week, buildings in the Mount Clemens Community School District were closed due to concerns over methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA). According to a recent article in the Detroit Free Press, the temporary closure resulted after a teacher and para-professional from the school came down with MRSA infections. During the temporary closure, the buildings and buses will be ...
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UVD Robots Joins Ecolab to Fight Hospital Acquired Infections
As new coronavirus variants continue to mutate and spread, the growth in demand for infection prevention solutions using UV-C light is projected to reach $18.94 billion by 2030, witnessing an annual growth rate of 59.7% from 2021 to 2030. Further fueling the demand is the rise in hospital acquired infections (HAIs) that globally cause more fatalities due to the increase in antibiotic resistance ...
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