Urgent issue: #CDC Poised To Weaken Masking, Infection Control via @forbes https://www.forbes.com/sites/judystone/2023/08/21/cdc-poised-to-weaken-masking-infection-control/ #aerosol #ventilation #masks #N95. #InfectionControl Thx to @brosseau_lisa @NationalNurses @jane_nnu @CorsIAQ for interviews. Public comment ends 8/25

Patients and healthcare workers will be endangered by HICPAC’s draft guidelines that don’t fully recognize airborne infection control. Tell CDC’s HICPAC we don’t want patients or healthcare workers to be infected in healthcare.

Sign Here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSehjAoSdenvtQYpAeq-DkPTJ55wI0eKBXPywzLavW-KNp4A2w/viewform

@whn @whn@a.gup.pe
#healthcare #covid #N95 #InfectionControl #hospitals #hicpac #cdc

See a detailed backgrounder here: https://whn.global/prevent-airborne-transmission-in-healthcare/

PS: there are very few ways to communicate more immediately to #disabled patients that they aren’t welcome in your practice. If you go out of your way to make sure it’s in the confirmation? That’s a pretty strong #FU🖕🏻 from the outset.

And y’all people have the audacity to complain that patients complain about you on the internet lol. What a joke. #CovidIsntOver #CovidIsAirborne #IDoNotConsent #MaskUp #PublicHealth #PublicSafety #MedicalAbleism #YouDoYo[e]ugenics #InfectionControl

Brasil..Ministério da Saúde. Secretaria de Vigilância em Saúde e Ambiente. Departamento de HIV/ Aids, Tuberculose, Hepatites Virais e Infecções Sexualmente Transmissíveis.

Controle de infecção por M. tuberculosis em ambientes de saúde

[Brasília : Ministério da Saúde, 2023

https://www.gov.br/aids/pt-br/centrais-de-conteudo/publicacoes/2023/controle-de-infeccao-por-m-tuberculosis-em-ambientes-de-saude-_-eletronico_leve.pdf/view

#Brasil
#InfectionControl
#PublicHealth

💊 @UniofAdelaide @latrobe @Uni_Newcastle say they developed a technique that enables antibiotics to change shape in order to attack different types of bacteria

#Antibiotics #Superbugs #InfectionControl https://www.scimex.org/newsfeed/new-shape-shifting-antibiotics-in-the-battle-against-superbugs

#InfectionControl “I have no medical evidence to back me up but something happened during the operation that staved off that infection. Something beyond science. Something perhaps... from above”

#InfectionControl “I have no medical evidence to back me up but something happened during the operation that staved off that infection. Something beyond science. Something perhaps... from above”

Open-access book on sepsis in resource-limited settings. 2019.

Sepsis Management in Resource-limited Settings is a comprehensive set of recommendations for the management of sepsis in resource-limited settings.

As much as I love stumbling across these kinds of resources, I have to wonder how often they make their way to where they're most needed, in a usable format/language. Still, amping the signal a bit in case it helps get this kind of thing where it needs to go.

#medicine #sepsis #OpenAccessBooks #nursing #InfectionControl #WartimeMedicine

https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/31954

Patients with diarrhoea often quickly isolated as ? C diff.

What if that isn't the diagnosis?

Neg result from near-patient testing:
👉 Shorter time in (unnecessary) isolation
👉 Shorter duration of (unnecessary) antibiotics
#IDMastodon #MedMastodon #AMR #RCT #academia #antibiotics #medicine #infectioncontrol
https://academic.oup.com/cid/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/cid/ciad046/7014772

"Although it is imperative to prevent healthcare-associated spread of respiratory pathogens, we must critically assess interventions that, when added upon core layers of infection prevention, may not attain the intended impact & may have unintended consequences"

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36539917/ #InfectionPrevention #infectioncontrol

If you are interested in #infectioncontrol we have a podcast called Infection Control Matters. It’s free, not sponsored, no ads. Available on many podcast providers - Apple, Google, Spotify etc. In a relaxed way, we talk about new research and with clinicians, academics and authors from across the world. @emrsa15 #Infectionprevention #infection https://infectioncontrolmatters.podbean.com

Asking adults to wear a mask if they have a respiratory infection and need to go out is sensible, ministers say. #Covid #flu #nhs #InfectionControl

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-64151557

“Kierat suggests that a good contaminant control solution in hospital rooms is to position the Total Volume exhaust as close as possible to the polluting source: the sick coughing patient in this case. Similar arrangement has been suggested by others (Cheong & Phua 2006; @CathNoakes et al. 2009; Tung et al. 2009). The results of our computational fluid dynamics (CFD) analysis leads us to the same conclusion.” http://doi.org/10.1007/s12273-011-0053-4

#ventilation #IPC #InfectionControl

🕊 🦩🦢 LOOKING FOR A NEW BIRD. TWITTER🐦🐤🐣🦆 CHANGED 💨 SCIENCE 🏥 BUT MAY STOP⁉️ 🦜🦚 *On the impact of twitter on science, and the damage done by the new owner.* (via Marion Koopmans @MarionKoopmans virology; public health; preparedness research )
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-04506-6 20DEC2022 #SARSCoV2 #healtheducation #epidemiology #virology #health #AirQuality #PublicHealth #InfectionPrevention
#infectioncontrol

Increase in carbapenemase producing Klebsiella pneumoniae in 🇩🇪 among refugees or evacuated patients from 🇺🇦 (red bars on graph, blue line = total).

In particular NDM-1 and NDM-1/OXA-48-producing K. pneumoniae. #MDR #AMR #infectioncontrol #surveillance
https://www.eurosurveillance.org/content/10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2022.27.50.2200926

It is not that physicians and researchers suddenly shifted. It is that one party completely shifted against #CleanAir #InfectionControl even #ReproductiveRights forcing anybody that hold evidence based rational positions on public health to sound partisan.

@gpollara
Thanks for this! Seems to me VRE is an overall safety & quality of care indicator reflecting #infectioncontrol and #antibioticstewardship. Need to think about this more. Lots of confounders acknowledged. 🤔

#cdiff #microbiota #microbiology #infectiousdiseases #infection #infectioncontrol #medicine #rebyota

After years of promoting #infectioncontrol #diseasecontrol sane #vaccination policy and recently #covid awareness, there are now three staff (out sick) and two tenants #covid + on my building of 30 apartments.

Maintenance guy just shrugs and say "they're not dying" and enters building without mask.

#COVIDisAirborne #CovidIsNotOver
#wearamask #covidiots
#sars2 #avid

Anyone using UV-C to disinfect rhino laryngoscopes in outpatient ENT / speech pathology clinics?

Keen to learn how the devices can be safely hung inside the cabinet.

@slp_slt @slpfedi #ENT #infectioncontrol #SLP_SLT