PICNet April Newsletter Debugging Healthcare Together April 2015 Ebola Teleclass PICNet is hosting a teleclass on April 24, 2015 from 10:30-11:30 am PST on the topic of Ebola: Real- life details. Patrice Gordon is a Nurse Practitioner from BC who worked in an Ebola treatment center in Sierra Leone in Nov/Dec 2014. She will share her insights into the disease and its clinical presentation....
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PICNet March Newsletter Debugging Healthcare Together March 2015 Videos of PICNet Conference and CPO Symposium Videos of the presentations from both the PICNet 2015 Educational Conference and the CDI/CPO Symposium are now available to view in Vimeo. The site displays best in Chrome or Firefox (and may not work on olde r versions of Internet Explorer). For the PICNet Conference presentations,...
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[…] - 05 March 2015 © Lyric Management 2015 48 Leadership Lessons PICNet - 05 March 2015 © Lyric Management 2015 18 8.*Leaving*a*Legacy- • Endurance has become the most successful failure ever • Leadership lessons endure today o Turn set-backs into opportunities o Be bold but cautious o Hire an outstanding crew o Unity amongst the crew from top to bottom o Match personality types...
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[…] management issues New York Cancer Hospital 1884 www.webbertraining.com December 4, 2014 Ed Krisiunas WNWN International Inc. Hosted by Paul Webber paul@webbertraining.com Ed Krisiunas, MT (ASCP), MPH WNWN International, Inc. PO Box 1164 Burlington, Connecticut 06013 USA 860-675-1217 860-675-1311(fax) 860-839-3993 (mobile) ekrisiunas@gmail.com ekrisiunas@wnwnintl.com SKYPE: boutiquewaste 2 Objectives: At the completion of the presentation, participants will have: 1. Knowledge of the historical perspective of health...
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[…] and cause ugly warts to grow. Some of ‘em even cause cancer in those parts of your body! Do ya know tha t this infection is now the number 1 sexually transmitted infection in the USA? A feller can ev en carry this for years without knowin it and give it to someone else. There are ways of avoidin’ these creeps though:...
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[…] -parts" and cause ugly warts to grow. Some of ‘em even cause cancer in those parts of your body! Do ya know that this infection is now the number 1 sexually transmitted infection in the USA? A feller can ev en carry this for years without knowin it and give it to someone else. There are ways of avoidin’ these creeps though:...
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[…] of infection can prevent the transmission of infection. Using influenza as the disease provide examples of how you would break each link in the chain of infection. Preventing transmis sion of influenza Link Examples of breaking the chain Infectious agent Reservoir Portal of exit Route of transmission Portal of entry Susceptible host Sources or reservoirs of infectious...
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[…] Paramyxoviridae. 1 Clinical presentation Acute viral respiratory illness characterized by a prodrome of fever, cough, coryza (runny nose), and conjunctivitis; a pathognomonic enanthema (Koplik spots); followed by a maculopapular rash, which may not be present in immune compromised patients. 2,3 Reservoir and Source Humans Surveillance Refer to BC Centre for Disease Control (BCCDC)’s Reportable Diseases Dashboard and Summaries and Public Health Agency of Canada’s Measles and Rubella...
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[…] that major surgical patients with concurrent COVID -19 infection have a higher risk of respiratory complications and a higher associated perioperative mortality within the first several weeks of diagnosis. Data for children is sparse. The latest COVIDSurg Collaborative dataset reported a pulmonary complication rate of 1.3% iii in children. Data from UT SouthWestern shows a much higher rate of respiratory complications in children...
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[…] infections this is well-recognised•RSV, Influenza, Legionella, Strep pneumoniae•Enteric bacterial pathogens•Is this true of pathogens responsible for HCAI?•Some studies do not look at effect of temperature/humidity, just ‘season’•National rates are not useful due to data combination• USA a case in point (Alaska + Arizona)•Chile19 SEASONAL PEAKS IN GRAM-NEGATIVES•Retrospective study 1998-2007•Al-Hasan M, et al. Clin MicrobiolInfect 2009; 15•E. coli incidence rate of BSI <mark...
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[…] providers and is based on known evidence as of January 8 , 2021 . Request and decision The B.C. AGMP expert group reviews medical procedures being performed on patients with suspected or confirmed COVID -19 in health -care settings in B.C. The expert group does not provide personal protective equipment (PPE) guidance. The B.C. AGMP expert g roup received a request from Vancouver...
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[…] providers and is based on known evidence as of January 8 , 2021 . Request and decision The B.C. AGMP expert group reviews medical procedures being performed on patients with suspected or confirmed COVID -19 in health -care settings in B.C. The expert group does not provide personal protective equipment (PPE) guidance. The B.C. AGMP expert g roup received a request from Vancouver...
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[…] . It is based on known evidence as of February 4, 2021 . Introduction The purpose of this document is to provide a transparent and consistent framework to guide the British Columbia AGMP expert group in making determinations on whether or not medical procedure s are considered to be AGMP s in the context of the COVID -19 pandemic . Scope The...
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[…] Accessed July 14, 2023. https://www.canada.ca/en/health -canada/services/environmental -workplace -health /reports - publications/climate -change -health/extreme -heat -events -guidelines -technical -guide -health -care -workers.html 2. World Health Organization (WHO). Heat and Health. 2018. Accessed July 14, 2023. https://www.who.int/ news - room/fact -sheets/detail/climate -change -heat -and -health 3. Health Canada. Acute Care During Extreme Heat: Recommendations and Information for Health Care Workers - Canada.ca. 2020. Accessed July 17,...
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The first new antibiotic to be discovered in nearly 30 years has been called a ‘game changer’ in the fight against the growing resistance to drugs. You can read about this discovery in today’s news, and read the article abstract on Nature.com. Petri20865063_xxl...
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Excerpted from The Maple Ridge & Pitt Meadows News: “Violet” is one of three Xenex “germ-zapping robots” that have been put to work in the Fraser Health region, trying to ensure the rooms are free of superbugs that cause infections. Cathy Wiebe, director of clinical operations at Ridge Meadows Hospital, explained that Violet is the latest weapon in the battle against hospital acquired <mark...
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Source: Vancouver Coastal Health : Public safety advisory for customers of Foody World Vancouver Coastal Health is warning customers not to consume any produce or ready-to-eat foods made in-house at Foody World, at 3000 Sexsmith Road in Richmond, due to possible listeria contamination. So far at least 6 people have been hospitalized due to the illness. Potentially contaminated items include all ready-to-eat meat products such...
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[…] and update you about several emerging respiratory viruses (ERV) with ongoing global monitoring since our last bulletin of June 17, 2014, including: 1. MERS-CoV. Activity has declined substantially relative to the dramatic surge that occurred in April 2014. However, sporadic cases continue to be reported from affected regions in the Middle East, including an imported MERS-CoV case reported this week in Austria,...
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Excerpted from Infection Control Today: The recent discovery of E. coli carrying mcr-1 and ndm-5 — genes that make the bacterium immune to last-resort antibiotics — has left clinicians without an effective means of treatment for this bacterium. But in a new study, University at Buffalo researchers have assembled a team of three antibiotics that, together, are capable of eradicating the deadly bacterium. <mark...
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