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Controlling healthcare acquired infections in the superbug era

July 8, 2019

Even the cleanest hospitals can serve as breeding grounds for dangerous microbes. Viral particles launched by a sneeze or by a change of bed linens hover in the air, to be inhaled by patients or to land on intravenous poles. Pathogens deposited into a box of surgical gloves hitch a ride, via central line, to a patients bloodstream, or via catheter to the urinary tract. Bacteria travel from the bed rail of an infected patient to the hands of a nurse and from there to vulnerable patients.8 The web of transmission routes is vast, complex, and invisible.

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Winchester Hospital, a member of Lahey Health, is located in Winchester, Massachusetts. Winchester Hospital provides comprehensive health care services with a total of 229 beds and bassinets and multiple outpatient sites. Providing care in major clinical categories including medicine, surgery, pediatrics, obstetrics/gynecology and a Level IIB Special Care Nursery, Winchester Hospital is a provider in such important subspecialties as cardiology, pulmonary medicine, oncology, gastroenterology, orthopedics, rehabilitation, radiation oncology and pain management...

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