Wound care using limited access dressing (LAD) may reduce nosocomial infections, improve mobility, and speed healing. Review background and case reports supporting LADs for a variety of wound types. Wounds
Despite considerable progress, clinical application of these approaches to pathogen recognition in hospitalized patients with severe sepsis is still years away. Future Microbiology
Dr Shorr reports on the NASCENT Trial which studied VAP in patients expected to undergo mechanical ventilation who received a silver-coated endotracheal tube. Medscape Pulmonary Medicine
Four factors predicting outcomes, in addition to gestational age, were sex, exposure or nonexposure to antenatal corticosteroids, single or multiple birth, and birth weight. Medscape Medical News
Bacterial contamination has become the leading transfusion-transmitted infectious risk. Can you detect it? Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)
