Nav Narayananumm, when we started doing rapid diagnostics and our stewardship team became the one that would call physicians and other providers directly to let them know, you know, those gram-positive cocci in clusters from the blood culture. It came back ...
Severe infections in neutropenic patient often progress rapidly leading to life-threatening organ dysfunction requiring admission to the Intensive Care Unit. Management strategies include early adequate appropriate empirical antimicrobial, early admission to ICU to avoid any delay in the diagnostic and therape...
New guidelines on treatment of surfaces in hospitals take into account more parameters which are considered to be relevant for preventing the transmission of nosocomial pathogens, such as the type of ward or the expected frequency of hand contact with a surface [5,6]. Irrespective of the divergen...