Apart from Covid-19, admissions at the University of the Philippines – Philippine General Hospital’s (UP-PGH) Bayanihan Isolation Unit will now include other highly communicable infections.
This was confirmed by UP-PGH’s Hospital Infection Control Unit (HICU) in an update released on Thursday, Ma
The prevalence of resistant hospital infections in the intensive care unit (ICU) increases mortality and antibiotic resistance. COVID-19 pandemic may have unintended impact on nosocomial infections (NI) and the prevalence of resistant microorganism. The present non-interventional study was performed by a pre and a post survey each lasting 8 months before (March–October 2019) and after (March–October 2020) the onset of COVID-19 pandemic in three ICU’s, not allocated to COVID-19 patients, in Nemazee Hospital, Shiraz, Iran. The rates of the following nosocomial infections were compared at pre- and post-pandemic period: ventilator associated pneumonia (VAP), central line associated blood stream infection (CLABSI), catheter-associated urinary tract infections (CAUTI) and incidence of multiple drug resistance (MDR) pathogens. Pre-pandemic and pandemic incidence of VAP was 23.5 and 17.2 cases per 1000 device-days, respectively; an absolute decrease of 27%. The main reason fo
While the first monkeypox case has already been recorded in the Philippines, the public should not panic too much as the Department of Health (DOH) has already issued a memorandum as early as May of this year on how to respond to this new public health emergency of international concern…
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