CQ TODAY ONLINE NEWS Oct. 28, 2011 – 7:55 p.m. Lawmakers are pushing the Veterans Affairs Department’s health care system to pave the way for the use of new medical devices to help hospitals nationwide prevent infections, which drive health costs up by $34 billion a year. Reps. Ann Marie Buerkle, R-N.Y., who is a [...]

Sr. VP Lloyd Delivers Message to House Veterans’ Affairs Committee: Port Protectors Save Lives and Reduce Costs Contact: Bob Rogers Chief Executive Officer Ivera Medical Corp. 760-612-6090 October 28, 2011, SAN DIEGO, CA–(WIRE)— On Tuesday morning, David Lloyd, Sr. Vice President of Sales for Ivera Medical Corporation addressed a roundtable meeting of the House Committee [...]

Each year more than one million patients receive cancer treatment in an outpatient oncology clinic. Despite advances in oncology care, infections from both community and health care settings remain a major cause of hospitalization and death among cancer patients receiving chemotherapy. To help protect this vulnerable patient population, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention [...]

IDSA Poster: Reduction of Central Line Associated Bloodstream Infection (CLABSI) in a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit with Use of Access Site Disinfection Caps Alice Pong, MD, Infectious Diseases, Rady Children’s Hospital San Diego Cindy Salgado, BSN, PHN, MBA, CIC, Infection Control, Rady Children’s Hospital San Diego Mark Speziale, MD, PhD, Neonatology, Rady Children’s Hospital San [...]

Infection preventionists, policy makers, patient safety advocates, healthcare professionals, administrators and consumers will join the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology (APIC), in collaboration with its global partners, in commemorating International Infection Prevention Week (IIPW), October 16-22. Nearly 30 associations and societies and half of all U.S. states have signed on to support [...]

Health & Medicine Week; October 10, 2011 According to the authors of recent research from Hershey, Pennsylvania, “Long-term central venous catheterization is associated with a higher rate of catheter-related blood stream infections (CR-BSI). It is unclear whether there is a difference in the CRBSI rate associated with central venous catheters (CVCs) and peripherally inserted central [...]

Preidt, HealthDay, 10/7; Nurse.com, 10/9; AHRQ release, 10/6. Septicemia was the most costly medical condition treated in U.S. hospitals in 2009, costing about $15.4 billion, according to a recent Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) report. The illness is caused by bloodstream infection with bacteria such as E. coli and methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA). [...]