Tag: Antibiotics

Potential burden of antibiotic resistance on surgical patients

Editor's Note Some 120,000 more patients would get surgical site infections (SSIs) and 6,300 more would die from those infections if antibiotics given before surgery become 30% less effective, this study finds. Researchers estimated that between 38.7% and 50.9% of pathogens causing SSIs in the US are resistant to standard…

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By: Judy Mathias
October 20, 2015
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FDA approves new drug to treat C diff

The Food and Drug Administration in May 2011 approved the first new drug in 25 years to treat diarrhea caused by Clostridium difficile, a pathogen that one study suggests may have surpassed methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus as the leading hospital-acquired infection, according to the New York Times. In clinical trials, fidaxomicin…

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By: OR Manager
July 1, 2011
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Hardwiring a process for antibiotics

Hardwiring the process for giving and discontinuing prophylactic antibiotics for surgery helped a university hospital drive up compliance with national guidelines, the July 2008 Journal of the American College of Surgeons reports. Finding education wasn't enough, the authors developed a process with "hard stops" at key points before and after…

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By: OR Manager
November 1, 2008
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