Medical students and interns were urged to volunteer for COVID-19 duty. Meanwhile, even experienced HCWs were unfamiliar with working with infectious diseases, which placed them in a new working environment and forced them to administer medical treatments without prior knowledge and/or training. They...
At the University of Chicago's Comer Children's Hospital, a volunteer slips her arms into a gauzy yellow hospital gown and approaches a medical crib holding a tiny newborn hooked up to noisy machines. "OK," she says, with a smile. "Baby time." That means cuddle time in the neonatal i...
a. Human volunteer studies involving foreign bodies have demonstrated that the presence of surgical su- tures decreases the inoculum required to cause an SSI from 106 to 102 organisms.164 b. Some trials have shown that surgical wound closure with triclosan-coated polygactin 910...