Abstract Introduction Ventilator Associated Pneumonia (VAP), as defined by the Centers for Disease Control and prevention (CDC), is a pneumonia that occurs in a patient receiving mechanical ventilation that develops 48 hours or more after initiation of ventilation. Re-intubation which occur within 72 hours of planned extubation may be effective in VAP incidence. The aim of this study was to det...

INTRODUCTION Ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) is the most frequent infection in patients admitted to intensive care units. METHODS We compared rates of VAP, days on mechanical ventilation (MV), and cost of antimicrobial agents before and during implementation. RESULTS We collected data from 401 patients before the intervention and from 1,534 patients during the intervention. Both group...

US health officials have been scrambling to tighten up their control protocols and procedures after the emergency room staff of a hospital in Dallas, Texas, misdiagnosed the first case of Ebola in the US—in a Liberian man who became ill shortly after arriving from west Africa—and two of the hospital’s nursing staff contracted the disease while caring for him. On 20 October, the US Centers for D...

INTRODUCTION Emergency medical services (EMS) personnel play an integral role during the national response to a pandemic event. To help ensure their health and safety, especially during the early stages of an outbreak, knowledge and adherence with personal protective equipment (PPE) and infection control strategies will be essential. OBJECTIVES The objective of this study was to assess the ef...