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CoapTech PUG System Study For Safer Procedure Performance On COVID-Positive Patients
The novel human coronavirus, severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), continues to infect naïve populations causing surges of critically ill patients who can survive their acute critical illness. Tracheostomy and gastrostomy are commonly paired procedures that bridge patients from their acute to subacute critical illness. Both are aerosolgenerating procedures that can ...
By CoapTech
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Healthcare Associated Infection Exposed in New Public Outreach Video
Today, the IAQ Video Network and Cochrane & Associates announced the release of their latest educational video. The online video, Acinetobacter, was developed to educate the general public and healthcare providers about this potentially deadly bacterial pathogen often linked with healthcare associated infection (HAIs). Acinetobacter is a group of bacteria commonly found in soil and ...
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Microbial Outbreak Results in Deaths at Neonatal Intensive Care Unit
Cinnaminson, NJ, August 8th, 2012 The Health Minister of the Bahamas recently ordered an investigation into an outbreak of a microbial pathogen at a neonatal intensive care unit. The outbreak, caused by a type of bacteria known as Acinetobacter baumannii, is believed to have sickened eight infants and caused two of the infants to die. Outbreaks of Acinetobacter baumannii in healthcare ...
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Midwest Hospitals on the Lookout for MDR-AB
In November of last year, a new study was published in the American Journal of Infection Control (AJIC). It indicated the common presence of Acinetobacter baumannii (MDR-AB), a dangerous multi-drug resistant bacterium, in numerous patient rooms in healthcare settings. Researchers found that MDR-AB was present in the indoor environment of 48% of the rooms of patients infected or colonized by the ...
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