Wires and Peripherally Inserted Central Catheters

An increasing number of patients are being admitted to critical care units with multiple chronic medical conditions. In some of these patients, intravenous access is a challenge. With a concern for indwelling catheter infections,... read more

Antibiotic therapy advances in the critically ill

Antibiotic therapy advances in the critically ill

Key issues related to antibiotic management in the critically ill, including problems associated with timing, duration, and dosing of antibiotics. The authors highlighted the importance of early diagnosis of infection and... read more

Researchers develop novel wound-healing technology

A WSU research team has successfully used a mild electric current to take on and beat drug-resistant bacterial infections, a technology that may eventually be used to treat chronic wound infections.... read more

Pulmaquin Looks Promising for Treating Lung Infections in Non-CF Bronchiectasis Patients

Pulmaquin Looks Promising for Treating Lung Infections in Non-CF Bronchiectasis Patients

Aradigm has announced top-line results from two Phase 3 clinical trials of Pulmaquin (inhaled ciprofloxacin) for the treatment of patients with non-cystic fibrosis bronchiectasis (non-CF BE) who have chronic lung infections... read more

Adherence to guidelines reduces catheter-associated UTIs

Adherence to guidelines reduces catheter-associated UTIs

Adherence to CDC guidelines for the placement, maintenance and removal of catheters and American College of Critical Care Medicine and Infectious Disease Society of America guidelines for evaluating fever in a critically... read more

Scientists create first viable mathematical model of a key anti-Salmonella defense system

Scientists create first viable mathematical model of a key anti-Salmonella defense system

Scientists have created the first validated mathematical model of an important cellular defense mechanism against the bacterium Salmonella, according to a new study in PLOS Computational Biology.... read more

How to prevent spread of the skin infection impetigo

How to prevent spread of the skin infection impetigo

Impetigo is a contagious skin infection that's preventable and can be treated with antibiotics, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration says. Impetigo can strike anytime but is more common during warm weather months. More... read more

Puerto Rico reports nearly 500 new Zika cases amid epidemic

Puerto Rico's health secretary says nearly 500 new cases of Zika have been reported in the U.S. territory in the past week. 34,562 cases of the mosquito-borne virus have now been registered.... read more

New method for predicting congenital congenital cytomegalovirus infection during the prenatal period

New method for predicting congenital congenital cytomegalovirus infection during the prenatal period

Congenital cytomegalovirus (CMV) infection can cause serious complications such as hearing difficulties and mental delay in affected infants. A research team has discovered a new method for predicting congenital CMV infection... read more

Acute Flaccid Myelitis Outbreak in Washington

Acute Flaccid Myelitis Outbreak in Washington

There has been a recent spike of cases reported in five counties in Washington State, in which eight children have been hospitalized for Acute Flaccid Myelitis.... read more

What a hospital bed could teach about patient safety

What a hospital bed could teach about patient safety

Most hospitalized patients spend the vast majority of their time in a hospital bed. Any body fluids such as blood, feces, urine, stomach contents, etc. that are secreted come in direct contact with that hospital bed.... read more

Negative pressure irrigation and endoscopic necrosectomy through man-made sinus tract in infected necrotizing pancreatitis

Negative pressure irrigation and endoscopic necrosectomy through man-made sinus tract in infected necrotizing pancreatitis

This four-step approach is effective in treating IPN and adds no extra risk to patients when compared with other latest step-up strategies. The two novel techniques (NPI and ED) could offer distinct clinical benefits without... read more

Lean six methodology can cut health care-linked infections

Lean six methodology can cut health care-linked infections

Application of the Lean Six Sigma (LSS) methodology can reduce the risk of health care-associated infections (HAI) among patients undergoing surgical procedures.... read more

Zika: Researchers create powerful tool for vaccine, antiviral development

Zika: Researchers create powerful tool for vaccine, antiviral development

By stripping the Zika virus of structural genes, researchers create versions to help develop vaccines and therapeutics without using infectious virus. ... read more

Sepsis on the Wards Manuscript Available Open Access

Sepsis on the Wards Manuscript Available Open Access

Surviving Sepsis Campaign supporter, the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, recently funded open access with its Sepsis on the Wards grant for original research.... read more

Could a Metabolic Switch Explain Inflammation in Lupus Patients?

Could a Metabolic Switch Explain Inflammation in Lupus Patients?

Researchers discovered a new mechanism linking specific classes of immune cells and metabolism, a finding that may explain why patients with lupus are incapable of controlling the inflammatory responses that ultimately lead... read more

Plasma cytokine levels predict response to corticosteroids in septic shock

Plasma cytokine levels predict response to corticosteroids in septic shock

Plasma concentration of selected cytokines is a potential predictive biomarker to identify septic shock patients that may benefit from treatment with corticosteroids.... read more