2153. Catheter Lock with Minocycline, EDTA and Ethanol for Salvaging of Central Venous Catheters in the Setting of Catheter-related Bloodstream Infections Ray Y. Hachem, MD1; Souha Kanj, MD, FIDSA; Nelson Hamerschlak, MD; Hala Saad, MD; Fernanda Ferraz Assir, MD; Nobuyoshi Mori, MD; Ying Jiang, MS; Fady Ghaly, MD; Anne-Marie Chaftari, MD and Issam Raad, MD; Infectious Diseases, Infection Contro...

2153. Catheter Lock with Minocycline, EDTA and Ethanol for Salvaging of Central Venous Catheters in the Setting of Catheter-related Bloodstream Infections Ray Y. Hachem, MD1; Souha Kanj, MD, FIDSA; Nelson Hamerschlak, MD; Hala Saad, MD; Fernanda Ferraz Assir, MD; Nobuyoshi Mori, MD; Ying Jiang, MS; Fady Ghaly, MD; Anne-Marie Chaftari, MD and Issam Raad, MD; Infectious Diseases, Infection Contro...

We are psychiatrists based at the American University of Beirut Medical Center, one largest psychiatric departments in Lebanon. Since October, 2019, Lebanon has navigated through several crises. It started with unremitting political unrest, national bankruptcy, and currency devaluation. The COVID-19 pandemic complicated situation by stretching health-care system to its limits. Our ordeal would ...

2153. Catheter Lock with Minocycline, EDTA and Ethanol for Salvaging of Central Venous Catheters in the Setting of Catheter-related Bloodstream Infections Ray Y. Hachem, MD1; Souha Kanj, MD, FIDSA; Nelson Hamerschlak, MD; Hala Saad, MD; Fernanda Ferraz Assir, MD; Nobuyoshi Mori, MD; Ying Jiang, MS; Fady Ghaly, MD; Anne-Marie Chaftari, MD and Issam Raad, MD; Infectious Diseases, Infection Contro...

BACKGROUND Inpatient admissions for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) represent a significant economic burden, accounting for over half of direct medical costs. Reducing 30-day readmissions could save health care resources while improving patient care. Recently, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act authorized reduced Medicare payments to hospitals with excess readmissions f...

Oracles used for testing graphical user interface (GUI) programs are required to take into consideration complicating factors such as variations in screen resolution or color scheme when comparing observed GUI elements to expected GUI elements. Researchers proposed fuzzy comparison rules and computationally expensive image processing techniques to tame the comparison process since otherwise the...

Asthma has become a major health problem in Asia, with a prevalence in many Asian countries approaching that of developed nations. The regular use of inhaled corticosteroids (ICS) has been shown in cohort and ecological studies to decrease hospital admission rates by up to 80%. 2 Asthma related mortality has also been shown to decline with ICS use, even at low doses. 3 4 Conversely, increased u...