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Questions discussed in this category

In drawing blood cultures from a central line to evaluate for CLABSI, do you advise drawing separate blood cultures from each port in case of dual or triple lumen line?

If yes, what is the rationale for doing that?

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What is your approach to secondary prophylaxis for C difficile infection during concomitant antibiotic use in a patient with a history of C difficile infection?

1 Answer available

When do you discontinue contact precautions in patients known to be colonized with ESBL-producing Enterobacterales?

3 Answers available

Are contact precautions effective at preventing MRSA transmission in healthcare settings?

2 Answers available

Should checking a urinalysis with reflex to culture be part of the standard work up for fever in an ICU patient with a urinary catheter?

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Papers discussed in this category

Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America, 2023 Sep 21

Are contact precautions "essential" for the prevention of healthcare-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus?

Journal of the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society, 2024 Jan 03

Discontinuation of Contact Precautions for Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in a Pediatric Healthcare System.

Microbes and infection, 2024 May 06

Secondary prophylaxis for Clostridioides difficile infection for patients on non-C. difficile antibiotics: a retrospective cohort study.

Infection control and hospital epidemiology, 2018-02

Duration of Contact Precautions for Acute-Care Settings.

Antimicrobial stewardship & healthcare epidemiology : ASHE, 2021 Oct 21

Taking off the gown: Impact of discontinuing contact precautions for extended-spectrum β-lactamase (ESBL)-producing organisms.

American journal of infection control, 2023 Feb 01

Increased evidence for no benefit of contact precautions in preventing extended-spectrum -lactamases-producing Enterobacteriaceae: Systematic scoping review.

Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America, 2009-07-01

Clinical practice guidelines for the diagnosis and management of intravascular catheter-related infection: 2009 Update by the Infectious Diseases Society of America.

Open forum infectious diseases, 2024 May 02

Should Blood Cultures Be Drawn Through an Indwelling Catheter?

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