Infection Control

Multi-drug resistant organsisms (MDROs) have become an increasingly vexing problem in American hospitals.

CME credit is no longer available for this conference.

Course Authors

Keith F. Woeltje, M.D., Ph.D.

Dr. Woeltje is Associate Professor of Medicine, Infectious Diseases, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO.

Within the past 12 months, Dr. Woeltje has been on the Speakers Bureau for Pfizer.

Release Date: 04/22/2008

Upon completion of this Cyberounds^®, you should be able to:

Describe how surveillance for healthcare-associated infections (HAI) is conducted and how HAI rates are reported
Describe three types of isolation precautions and a common indication for each
Discuss three interventions for the prevention of device-associated HAI.

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