As flu cases and related hospital admissions dramatically rise across Central Virginia and nationwide, numerous health systems and hospitals are enhancing their existing safety measures to curtail the spread of respiratory diseases, including COVID-19, respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), and influenza. The need to revise the standard safety measures emerges as the influenza season, which typically…
Researchers from Johns Hopkins Medicine in Baltimore have identified a critical issue in infection prevention: the absence of a standard definition for blood culture contamination. This lack of consensus may lead to a rise in false positives and Central Line Associated Blood Stream Infections (CLABSIs).
Lead author Valeria Fabre, MD, an associate professor of medicine in…