Clostridium difficile

that concept until I hit high school. By the time I was willing to try to 'fix' myself, an illness came over me. I had endometriosis and a clostridium difficile infection all at once. The doctors were stumped and couldn't give me a proper diagnosis. Finally, after months of crippling pain and week-long stays in the hospital, I was given a diagnosis. The clostridium difficle was curable, but the endometriosis I would live with for the rest of my life. A few surgeries later, I felt like I was…

bacteria also have been found on HCW hands after so-called “clean” contact, such as taking a patient’s pulse, temperature or blood pressure. Organisms found on HCW hands after such patient contact range from Klebsiella spp., Staphylcoccus aureus, Clostridium difficile, MRSA, and gram-negative bacteria. However,…

Listeria Monocytogene is a gram positive rod shaped organism which can cause serious infections like meningitis, invasive gastroenteritis and endocarditis. Every year 1600 people in United States get affected, with significant mortality of 260 people annually. Listeria gastroenteritis has the third highest mortality rate among all the food born infection. Invasive listeriosis most commonly affect Pregnant women, extreme of ages, people with co morbid disease and weakened immune response. We here…

On October 1, 2008, The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) implemented a new regulation, which deny payment for selected 10 conditions occurring during the hospital stay and are not present on admission. Out of these 10 hospital-acquired conditions, three of them were healthcare-associated infections, which are a common, expensive, and often preventable. According to an article published in Med Care on 2010, this policy was the first significant step to move output-based inpatient…

Airborne Precaution: Is when a person has a known or suspected to have infection that can be transmitted by air route. These contagion are caused by organisms that can be suspended in the air for a long period of time. Examples of airborne disease are tuberculosis, rubeola, Shingles, chickenpox. When working with some with airborne transmission, we should make sure they are in a Negative airflow room to prevent spread of infection, and anyone who is going in the room should wear a HEPA filter…

serious. Some of the possible infections that can come from HAI, or Healthcare-Associated Infections, are catheter-associated urinary tract infections, infections at the site of procedures, infections in the bloodstream, pneumonia and also Clostridium difficile, which is inflammation of one's colon. All of these infections can get serious if they are not taken care of. Not to mention, that things like pneumonia can become a drug-resistant bacteria. With the these possible risks, we need to make…

Hospitals are institutions founded solely on the principle of wellness, most do an excellent job at this except for in one category and that is the food. When one thinks about hospital food they think about things such as mashed potatoes jello and country fried steak. These food items leave a lot to be desired when it comes to nutritional value, and with some hospital food courts boasting establishments such as McDonald's and Chick-fil-A, it is probably prudent to take a closer look at exactly…

In the 1940s, antibiotics were widely introduced as a cure for common types of diseases. However, some microbes were able to resist the impacts of these drugs, in other words, the pathogen remained alive. In order to help resolve the crisis, antibiotics were found through screenings of soil microorganisms. However, soil microorganism’s antibiotics were depleted by the 1960s and their antibiotic effects were unable to be replicated through synthesis. In this experiment, the researchers developed…

hospitalization (odds ratio [OR], 2.4 [95% confidence interval (CI), 1.3–4.7]; P < .01), nursing home exposure (OR, 3.8 [95% CI, 2.3–6.3]; P < .01), and history of exposure to healthcare-associated pathogens (MRSA carriage: OR, 8.0 [95%CI, 4.2–15.1]; Clostridium difficile infection: OR, 3.4 [95% CI, 2.2–5.3]; vancomycin-resistant Enterococci carriage: OR, 3.1 [95% CI, 2.5–4.0]; P < .01 for all) (McKinnell et al., 2014, p. 1077). Select comorbidities were associated with MRSA colonization…

composition because of dietary reasons. [3]As well as diet induced colitis there is also antibiotic induced colitis such as pseudomembranous colitis which is a result of Clostridium difficile colonization. This occurs when normal flora have been compromised by the presence of an antibiotic. Shifts in microbiota composition allow C. difficile to colonize the intestinal epithelial…