Healthcare-Associated Central Nervous System Infections Jeffrey M. Tessier W. Michael Scheld Healthcare-associated infections related to the central nervous system (CNS) are a relatively infrequent but important category of hospital-acquired infections….
Healthcare-Associated Eye Infections Marlene L. Durand David J. Weber William A. Rutala Worldwide, 314 million people are visually impaired and 45 million are blind (1). Cataracts account for nearly half…
Healthcare-Associated Burn Wound Infections C. Glen Mayhall Burn patients are among the patients at highest risk for healthcare-associated infections. These patients have lost a portion of their integument that would…
Healthcare-Associated Gastrointestinal Tract Infections Nicolas A. Melgarejo Herbert L. DuPont Although infectious diarrhea is well recognized in the outpatient setting, enteric infections acquired in the hospital are less well studied….
Healthcare-Associated Sinusitis Marc J.M. Bonten Healthcare-associated sinusitis (HAS) is a common, unrecognized cause of fever and even sepsis in mechanically ventilated patients. Underestimation of its incidence is at least partly…
Healthcare-Associated Pneumonia Dennis C.J.J. Bergmans Marc J.M. Bonten The substantial clinical and financial impact of healthcareassociated pneumonia makes this an important topic for healthcare epidemiologists. According to surveillance data from…
Surgical Site Infections Sarah Y. Won Edward S. Wong Despite advances in operative techniques, better understanding of the pathogenesis of surgical site infections (SSIs), and widespread use of prophylactic antibiotics,…
Healthcare-Associated Urinary Tract Infections John P. Burke David J. Pombo Urinary tract infections (UTIs) are the most common healthcare-associated infections in both acute care hospitals and long-term care facilities, accounting…
Healthcare-Associated Bloodstream Infections Trevor C. VanSchooneveld Mark E. Rupp Healthcare-associated bloodstream infections (HA-BSIs) are a significant and continuing problem in our present-day healthcare system. A variety of factors, including central…
Healthcare-Associated Infections Related to Use of Intravascular Devices Inserted for Long-Term Vascular Access Anne-Marie Chaftari Issam Raad Long-term intravascular devices (IVDs) have become indispensable in the modern medical care of…
