A newly published paper in the American Journal of Infection Control (AJIC) has brought into sharp focus, the intricate challenge of coordinating enough resources towards infection prevention and control in healthcare facilities, specifically pediatric hospitals. The study underscores the difficulties in accurately quantifying the staffing requirements for these roles using traditional methods. In short, healthcare…
This article synthesizes findings of a comprehensive, seven-year (2016-2022) multi-center study that investigated the pathogen distribution and drug resistance of gram-negative bacteria causing bloodstream infections (BSIs) amongst pediatric patients in China.
The research was facilitated by the Infectious Disease Surveillance of Pediatric (ISPED), whose reach expanded to 12 tertiary children’s hospitals in nine provinces or…
The Society of Critical Care Medicine (SCCM) recently announced the introduction of updated criteria for diagnosing sepsis in children. These new guidelines replace the 2005 standards set by the International Pediatric Sepsis Consensus Conference (IPSCC) which defined sepsis as a combination of suspected or confirmed infection and systemic inflammatory response syndrome—a definition that has since…