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May. 8th, 2013 at 7:30 AM
Patients who have an in-hospital cardiac arrest have the best neurological outcomes if it occurs in an operating room or a post-anesthesia care unit, University of Michigan researchers reported in the journal Anesthesiology. Data showed patients with pulseless electrical activity events had poorer survival to discharge rates in ICUs, compared with general units, but the ICU or telemetry were the best places for pulseless ventricular tachycardia.
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...So, if you're going to go into a V-tach cardiac arrest, make sure you're in ICU first, but if PEA is your preference, you'd better be in OR or PACU...:P
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Improved hand hygiene has no impact on superbug rates, study says
The rate of hand hygiene compliance at hospitals in Ontario, Canada, increased from 2008 to 2011, but the rate of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus infections did not decrease over the same time period, according to a study in Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology. Rates of Clostridium difficile cases declined in 2009, but not in 2010 or 2011, the study said. The study evaluated data from 166 acute-care hospitals from October 2008 through December 2011.
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Ah, so we can all stop with the handwashing, sounds like? :P
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And here's a novel approach to preventing childhood allergies:
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Parental sucking on pacifiers may help ward off childhood allergies
Babies whose parents cleaned their pacifiers by using their own mouths were 12% and 37% less likely to develop asthma and eczema at age 18 months, respectively, Swedish researchers found. At age 3, children whose parents cleaned their pacifiers with their mouths were still about half as likely to have eczema as other children. The study was published in the journal Pediatrics.
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