Search Tag: Nosocomial infections

ICU Management

Applying-international-sepsis-guidelines-by-screening-high-risk-hospitalised-patients-with-psp

2023 13 Oct

Hospital and ICU nosocomial sepsis screening for acutely ill and high-risk patients and daily measurement of PSP to diagnose nosocomial sepsis three to five days before the onset of symptoms.     Introduction Sepsis is a major public health threat and is responsible for 11 million deaths per year (Rudd et al. 2020) among 48.9 million cases....Read more

Sepsis

Vingmed-symposium-identification-of-sepsis-up-to-72-hrs-in-advance-psp-a-new-biomarker-of-sepsis

2022 01 Nov

On September 21st during the Clinical Chemistry congress on Jönköping, Sweden, Dr. Francois Ventura, Intensive Care Physician and Chief Medical Officer gave an academic lecture addressing the disease burden of sepsis and antimicrobial resistance (AMR), and the place of biomarkers in the management of sepsis and how they could help improve the management...Read more

Executive Health Management

Evaluation-of-the-microbial-tightness-of-mini-spike-r-2-chemo-v-a-closed-system-transfer-device

2019 08 Aug

In vitro study validating the microbial barrier function by means of airborne contamination Jürgen Gebel, Sapuna Kuriakose, Barbara Grüter, Martin Exner; University of Bonn Hospital, Institute for Hygiene and Public Health, Germany   BACKGROUND Nosocomial infections pose a major problem in the healthcare system because they contribute...Read more

Executive Health Management

Evaluation-of-the-microbial-tightness-of-the-safeflow-valve-a-closed-system-transfer-device

2019 08 Aug

In vitro study validating the microbial barrier function by means of airborne and touch contamination Juergen Gebel, Sapuna Kuriakose, Barbara Griiter, Martin Exner; University of Bonn Hospital, Institute for Hygiene and Public Health, Germany BACKGROUND Nosocomial infections pose a major problem in the healthcare system because...Read more

Executive Health Management

Microbial-tightness-of-cyto-set-r-cyto-set-r-mix-two-closed-system-transfer-devices-evaluation

2019 08 Aug

In vitro study validating  the microbial barrier function by means of airborne contamination Juergen Gebel, Sapuna Kuriakose, Barbara Griiter, Martin Exner; University of Bonn Hospital, Institute for Hygiene and Public Health, Germany BACKGROUND Nosocomial infections pose a major problem in the healthcare system because they...Read more

ICU Management

Results-of-antimicrobial-stewardship-programme-implementation-in-multidisciplinary-hospital

2018 01 Jun

The interventional single-centre with historical control study was conducted in a 600-bed multidisciplinary hospital to evaluate 4 years’ results of an antimicrobial stewardship programme. We found a significant reduction in average duration of courses of antimicrobial therapy, length of stay of patients with infection in ICU, mortality in patients...Read more