1375 Elective Surgical MRSA Screening in a Paediatric Hospital

MRSA screening on a paediatric intensive care unit.

The accuracies of chromogenic agar and the GeneXpert real-time PCR system (Cepheid, Sunnyvale, California, USA) for admission methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) screening of 1336 consecutive paediatric intensive care unit patients (1282 evaluable swab results) were determined using enrichment culture as the reference standard. Twenty (1.6%) swabs were MRSA-positive by enrichment...

Cancelled elective general surgical operations in Ayub Teaching Hospital.

BACKGROUND Cancellation of operations in hospitals is a significant problem with far reaching consequences. This study was planned to evaluate reasons for cancellation of elective surgical operation on the day of surgery in Ayub Teaching Hospital, Abbottabad. METHODS From July 2006 to June 2007 the medical records of all the patients who had their operations cancelled on the day of surgery in...

Should MRSA protocols include screening for surgical patients?

Maximum surgical blood ordering schedule improves blood utilization in elective surgeries :An experience in Faghihi hospital, Shiraz, Iran

Abstract Background and Objectives Over-ordering of blood before operation can cause unnecessary cross matches, blood bank staff overload, blood unit wastages due to outdating, and increase hospital costs. So, we aimed to survey the efficacy of MSBOS on blood utilization in Faghihi Hospital, Shiraz, Iran.   Materials and Methods This cross sectional study was conducted over a three month per...

Prevalence of Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus (MRSA) in Surgical Site Infections in a Tertiary Care Hospital

Objective: To determine the prevalence of Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) in post-operative wound infections in surgical wards and surgical ICU and also to define the antimicrobial susceptibility pattern of the strains isolated. Design: A cross sectional prospective study. Place and Duration of Study: Departments of Pathology and Surgery, Pakistan Institute of Medical Science...