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Test your knowledge of the H1N1 Flu (Swine Flu). Get information about H1N1 Flu symptoms, transmission, prevention, and treatment, including the H1N1 Flu vaccine.    

This topic is an actual presentation from a national conference conducted by Contemporary Forums and includes the streaming, synchronized audio with visual materials. CE Credit is optional. Contemporary Forums: Providing Quality, Accredited Continuing Education to Thousands of Healthcare Professionals For More Than 25 Years and Now Offering both Live Conferences and Online Conference Content Via the Online CE Library.

This topic is an actual presentation from a national conference conducted by Contemporary Forums and includes the streaming, synchronized audio with visual materials. CE Credit is optional. Contemporary Forums: Providing Quality, Accredited Continuing Education to Thousands of Healthcare Professionals For More Than 25 Years and Now Offering both Live Conferences and Online Conference Content Via the Online CE Library.

This topic is an actual presentation from a national conference conducted by Contemporary Forums and includes the streaming, synchronized audio with visual materials. CE Credit is optional. Contemporary Forums: Providing Quality, Accredited Continuing Education to Thousands of Healthcare Professionals For More Than 25 Years and Now Offering both Live Conferences and Online Conference Content Via the Online CE Library.

This topic is an actual presentation from a national conference conducted by Contemporary Forums and includes the streaming, synchronized audio with visual materials. CE Credit is optional. Contemporary Forums: Providing Quality, Accredited Continuing Education to Thousands of Healthcare Professionals For More Than 25 Years and Now Offering both Live Conferences and Online Conference Content Via the Online CE Library.

This topic is an actual presentation from a national conference conducted by Contemporary Forums and includes the streaming, synchronized audio with visual materials. CE Credit is optional. Contemporary Forums: Providing Quality, Accredited Continuing Education to Thousands of Healthcare Professionals For More Than 25 Years and Now Offering both Live Conferences and Online Conference Content Via the Online CE Library.

This topic is an actual presentation from a national conference conducted by Contemporary Forums and includes the streaming, synchronized audio with visual materials. CE Credit is optional. Contemporary Forums: Providing Quality, Accredited Continuing Education to Thousands of Healthcare Professionals For More Than 25 Years and Now Offering both Live Conferences and Online Conference Content Via the Online CE Library.

This topic is an actual presentation from a national conference conducted by Contemporary Forums and includes the streaming, synchronized audio with visual materials. CE Credit is optional. Contemporary Forums: Providing Quality, Accredited Continuing Education to Thousands of Healthcare Professionals For More Than 25 Years and Now Offering both Live Conferences and Online Conference Content Via the Online CE Library.

ATTENTION EVERYONE  AND ATTENTION PARENTS TO CHILDREN:  YOU NEED TO BE AWARE OF WHAT IS AROUND US! MY SON RECENTLY WAS IN THE HOSPITAL FOR 8 DAYS IN JANUARY. DIAGNOSED WITH M.R.S.A. OR STAPH INFECTION. THERE IS NO REASON OR WHY HE GOT IT, IT HAPPENED.  IF POSSIBLE I NEED PEOPLE ALL OF YOU TO LOOK UP M.R.S.A.  AND READ TO ...

The US is in alert status for a possible Pandemic flu outbreak.  If we do have a pandemic outbreak, the nurse patient ratio could be so difficult.  An inservice at work told the class today that nurse/patient ratios could be 5:1 in ICU; and 20:1 for the floor.  It's scary to think that this could happen.  These ratios were given to ...

Tamar F. Barlam, M.D.; Dennis L. Kasper, M.D. Author Information Content To prevent transmission of nosocomial infections caused by methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) and vancomycin-resistant enterococci (VRE), the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America recommend contact precautions. Health care workers (HCWs) caring for patients infected or colonized with MRSA and/or VRE must wear ...

Caring for patients with communicable diseases places healthcare workers (HCWs) at risk. Infected HCWs may not only incur serious illness or death themselves but may spread infection to others. Methods to prevent HCW infections include vaccination (1), hand hygiene (2), and isolation of patients with communicable diseases (3). A key aspect of patient isolation is proper use of personal protective equipment ...

Mycobacterium ulcerans infection is an emerging skin disease often called Buruli ulcer (BU). Infection results in illness and lasting negative socioeconomic effects in rural areas of the tropics and subtropics (1). The pathologic changes, clinical signs and symptoms, and treatment have been reviewed elsewhere (2–5). In this article we evaluate field evidence for the potential of aquatic invertebrates to be vectors ...

The threat of a pandemic has been raised by the recent emergence of avian influenza virus (H5N1) in Southeast Asia. If an influenza pandemic of the same magnitude and severity as the one in 1918–19 were to occur in the present day, worldwide an estimated 51–81 million persons would die (1). To date, antiviral drugs, principally the neuraminidase inhibitors, and vaccines ...

What is meningitis? Meningitis is an infection of the fluid of a person's spinal cord and the fluid that surrounds the brain. People sometimes refer to it as spinal meningitis. Meningitis is usually caused by a viral or bacterial infection. Knowing whether meningitis is caused by a virus or bacterium is important because the severity of illness and the treatment differ. ...

What are Staph and MRSA? Staph is Staphylococcus aureus or a type of bacteria that can cause infections ranging from skin to severe blood infections. MRSA or Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus is a type of staph that is resistant to certain antibiotics. Staph and MRSA in the community usually cause skin infections that often first look like spider bites or bumps that ...

Medical Author: Charles Davis, MD, PhD Medical Editor: Melissa Conrad Stöppler, MD What is methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA)? What are the signs and symptoms of MRSA infection? How is MRSA infection transmitted? How is MRSA diagnosed? How can people prevent MRSA infection? Can people die from MRSA infections? If MRSA is so resistant to many antibiotics, how is it treated ...

P. Aeruginosa Proves to be a Tough Foe The invasive gram-negative bacteria are notorious for their intrinsic (natural) resistance to multiple classes of antibiotics and for their ability to mutate and develop resistance to virtually any antibiotic used for therapy. Serious infections with P.aueuginosa have become a desperate problem in hospitals, and now some strains are resistant to all common classes ...

Protein Key to Severity of Staph Infections Scientists have discovered why some strains of the Staphylococcus aureus bacterium ("Staph") can be so dangerous. They hope to use the finding to advance development of new therapeutic treatments. A microscopic photograph of Staphylococcus aureus A microscopic photograph of Staphylococcus aureus. Image courtesy of Janice Carr and Jeff Hageman, Centers for Disease Control and ...