Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) News

• How PAs Can Avoid Malpractice: Go Back to Practice Basics A thorough medical history that focuses on diagnostics can help PAs steer clear of medical errors and their legal ramifications, a medico-legal consultant advises.
  Medscape Medical News, May 23, 2022
• ACP-IM 2022 Don’t Let FOMI Lead to Antibiotic Overuse Fear of missing infections in patients is a leading driver of inappropriate use of antibiotics, one expert on stewardship said at the 2022 ACP meeting.
  Medscape Medical News, May 03, 2022
• Can Gram Stains Guide Antibiotics for Pneumonia in Critical Care? Use of Gram stains to select antibiotics for ventilator-associated pneumonia offers similar clinical outcomes as guideline-based broad-spectrum treatment, study reports.
  Medscape Medical News, April 08, 2022
• Can Corticosteroids Help in Kids' Eye and Throat Infections? Prospective studies are needed to clearly identify which patients will benefit.
  Medscape Medical News, November 30, 2021
• Hospital Safety Grades Show Significant Variation Virginia, North Carolina, and Idaho top list of states with grade-A hospitals in annual ranking.
  Medscape Medical News, November 15, 2021
• Antibiotic Resistance Costly, Deadly for Older Americans In 2017, multidrug-resistant infections led to $1.9 billion in healthcare costs, 448,224 days in the hospital and 11,852 deaths among older adults in the United States, according to a new analysis.
  Reuters Health Information, October 14, 2021
• New Guidelines on Antibiotic Prescribing Focus on Shorter Courses The guidelines spotlight four common conditions where shorter courses of antibiotics result in similar clinical benefits with fewer adverse events.
  Medscape Medical News, April 05, 2021
• Tree Resin Compound Defeats Drug-Resistant Bacteria in Lab Tests A tree resin extract may prove effective in treating drug-resistant bacterial infections, according to early lab studies.
  Medscape Medical News, February 23, 2021
• Children's Hospitals Are to Blame as Superbugs Attack Kids A growing body of research shows that overuse and misuse of antibiotics in children's hospitals helps fuel these dangerous bacteria that attack adults and, increasingly, children.
  Kaiser Health News, January 04, 2021
• Small Practices Wiped Out of Disinfectant Wipes As healthcare facilities' stores of disinfectant wipes have been wiped out during the pandemic, some have made their own. The supply chain may recover in January, one expert says.
  Medscape Medical News, November 18, 2020
• Drug Combo No Better in MRSA Blood Infections, Ups Risk Adding a beta-lactam to standard therapy for MRSA bacteremia does not improve outcomes and appears to up the risk for kidney injury, data from a randomized controlled trial showed.
  Medscape Medical News, February 11, 2020
• Decolonizing Parents Cuts NICU Staph Transmission Risk Decolonizing the parents of infants in neonatal intensive care units may reduce the risk of the parents transmitting Staphylococcus aureus to the infants.
  Medscape Medical News, January 13, 2020
• Alert FDA Clears Faster Diagnostic Test for MRSA The cobas vivoDx MRSA test uses a new bacteriophage technology based on bioluminescence to detect MRSA from nasal swab samples in 5 hours or less compared with 24 to 48 hours for conventional cultures.
  FDA Approvals, December 05, 2019
• Threat of Antibiotic Resistance in US Higher Than Thought: CDC Despite progress since 2013, antibiotic resistance remains a 'significant enemy' that threatens the nation's health and global security, federal health officials say.
  Medscape Medical News, November 13, 2019
• Prophylaxis in Newly Diagnosed Myeloma Reduces Complications Studies on the benefit of supportive care options in myeloma are scarce, but now a study suggests that anti-infectious prophylaxis can reduce the risk of febrile episodes and early death.
  Medscape Medical News, November 05, 2019
• Doctors Have a Right to Remain Mum, Judge Says Will malpractice premiums rise in this state?; investigation of doctor's misconduct falls into 'black hole'; bill that would allow military physicians to be sued has stalled; more.
  Medscape Medical News, October 22, 2019
• Ticagrelor: A New Antibiotic? The antiplatelet agent has bactericidal activity against multidrug-resistant gram-positive bacteria and may represent a new class of antibiotic, new research suggests.
  Medscape Medical News, May 16, 2019
• Multidrug-Resistant Bacteria Found on Patient Hands, Surfaces Multidrug-resistant bacteria were found on many hospitalized patients' hands and on commonly touched surfaces in their rooms. They could be a reservoir for hospital-acquired infections, a study indicates.
  Medscape Medical News, April 16, 2019
• ACC 2019 POET: No Late Failure With Oral Antibiotic for Endocarditis Longer-term follow-up of patients with left-sided infectious endocarditis shows no delayed issues with an early switch to oral from IV antibiotics.
  Medscape Medical News, March 21, 2019
• Stalled Progress on Staph Infections a Deadly Concern, CDC Says More than 119,000 people developed S aureus bloodstream infections in 2017, and inconsistent or declining adherence to infection prevention recommendations might be slowing progress.
  Medscape Medical News, March 06, 2019