POSTS TAGGED AS hospital acquired infections

Inhibiting Hospital Acquired Infections without Antibiotics

 
Coating on catheter (left) inhibits bacterial growth
UCLA engineers have created a material that inhibits bacterial growth on catheters, stents, heart [MORE]

Self-Sterilizing Polymer as a Medical Material

Anionic polymers disinfectant
Chemical engineers at North Carolina State University have created a nanomaterial disinfectant that can kill many germs responsible [MORE]

Issues for the “Hospital-at-Home”

Hospital at Home Model
There is a deficiency in American healthcare that is hiding in plain sight. It is the deterioration [MORE]

POC Device for Fast Diagnosis of Bacterial Infections

Polarization Anisotropy Diagnostics
Researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital have built a point-of-care device that can diagnose five different bacteria—the major germs [MORE]

POC Device for Hospital Acquired Infections

PAD Device
In proof-of-principle research, bioengineers at Massachusetts General Hospital have developed a point-of-care device that can interface with a table [MORE]

Movement Sensor Required to Prevent Pressure Ulcers

Leaf Patient Sensor
Bedsores most commonly present in hospitalized patients who are not moved sufficiently to relieve pressure on blood vessels [MORE]

Sanitizing Hospital Door Handles

Door Handle Sanitizer
Hospital acquired infections happen at a rate of one in twenty five in-patients.  Since insurers no longer [MORE]

Light Sensitive Antimicrobial Surface

Light Sensitive Antimicrobial Surface
Hospital acquired infections have taken greater urgency since hospitals are no longer be compensated for treating in-patients [MORE]

Computerized Checklist Reduces Hospital-Acquired Infections

Christopher Longhurst and Team Developed Checklist
As this piece reports from Stanford University Hospital: “[An] automated checklist, and a dashboard-style [MORE]

New Materials: New Medical Solutions

New medical technology owes much to materials science, as this piece illustrates with liquid crystal polymers for artificial muscles, and [MORE]

Disinfecting Robots for Hospital Housekeeping

Xenex UV-Disinfection System
Clostridium difficile is one of the most persistent pathogens in hospital acquired infections. Alcohol-based hand sanitizers are [MORE]

RFID Monitor for Hand-Washing

RFID Handwashing Monitor
Sarasota, FL-based IntelligentM has introduced and RFID and accelerometer bracelet that doctors and nurses wear to monitor [MORE]

Antimicrobial Hydrogel

IBM Hydrogel Kills Microbes
Every surface in a hospital—from bed rails to food trays to door knobs, furniture, etc—are [MORE]

“Personalized” Pathogens

Staphylococcus aureus VISA
It has been a decade since hospital-acquired vancomycin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (VRSA) was first isolated from the [MORE]