For surveillance purposes, CLABSI refers to a primary bloodstream infection meeting the above criteria for >2 consecutive calendar days. Consider appropriate CVC site Use aseptic technique ... ETT ...

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Identifying risk factors for infection could lead to improved preventive measures ... and findings may be more broadly shared in their respective regions by the study site teams. For the risk factor ...

Background Catheter-associated urinary tract infections (CAUTI) are costly, common and often preventable by reducing unnecessary urinary catheter (UC) use. Methods To summarise interventions to reduce ...

Oral Biology, Bioengineering Section, and Department of Cranio-Maxillofacial Surgery, University Hospital Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland, Institute of Bioengineering, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de ...

Abstract: This note extends tube-based model predictive control to the control of nonlinear systems with unmodeled dynamics. The problem of obtaining robustness against unstructured uncertainty is ...

Toxoplasmosis is caused by an intracellular protozoan, Toxoplasma gondii, which has a wide geographical distribution. The main infection routes are ingestion of cysts from raw or badly-cooked meat, ...

Design and objectives Every organisation has a unique culture. There is a widely held view that a positive organisational culture is related to positive patient outcomes. Following the Preferred ...

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biocompatible’, ‘Biomimetic material’, ‘Sutures’, ‘Vicryl Plus’, ‘Monocryl Plus’, ‘PDS Plus’, ‘Surgical site infection’, ‘Surgical Wound infection’. The search was conducted on 31 May 2019. A copy of ...

3 Centre for Evaluation and Methods, Wolfson Institute of Population Health, Queen Mary University of London, UK 4 Academic Centre for Healthy Ageing, Whipps Cross Hospital, Barts Health NHS Trust ...

and General Medical Council do not recommend tube feeding for people with severe dementia8 9 when eating problems are due to disease progression. Current guidance focuses on comfort feeding, or “at ...