Surgical site infections can be prevented during pain relief procedures, anesthesiologists and pain physicians say.

Every year, Canada loses up to 20 people daily to drug overdoses — heartbreaking, shocking and deserving of the significant attention it receives. The drug overdose crisis claims up to 3,000 lives ...

The study was conducted in a cohort of 3,020 patients from three hospitals. SSIs are among the most prevalent healthcare-associated infections.(AP) A study by the Indian Council of Medical ...

Introduction: The preoperative phase is an important period in which to prevent surgical site infections (SSIs ... and classifications of SSIs from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) ...

Pseudomonas aeruginosa is one of the most common and serious infections people get from being in the hospital. You can get a pseudomonas infection in several different ways. It can grow on fruits ...

A social media handle also reported that paediatric hospitals ... infection like pneumonia, asthma flare-ups or make chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) worse, according to Cleveland Clinic.

HOSPITALS across Ireland have enforced infection control measures as they are swamped by patients due to the ongoing flu infection spike. Most hospitals are enforcing infection control measures ...

About one out of every 56 healthy infants ends up in a hospital due to the RS virus. The viral infection carries symptoms like a runny nose, cough and fever, which can then lead to wheezing, and brief ...

One of Windsor’s youngest residents is in a London hospital room fighting a potentially deadly infection her family believes should have been diagnosed sooner. Lethargic, feverish, and unable to ...

Teesside hospitals are asking the public to help limit the spread of infection after the NHS confirmed this winter flu season is on track to be potentially one of the worst. University Hospitals ...