Publications by authors named "J Waechter"
Background: Educating health care staff on infection prevention and control (IPC) is an essential role of infection preventionists (IPs), but the COVID-19 pandemic diverted resources away from IPC education.
Methods: Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology members were invited to complete an online survey from spring 2023 to assess current and preferred approaches and tools for training health care personnel on IPC. Vendors, retirees, APIC staff, or those not working in health care or public health were excluded.
Objectives: We examined long-term outcomes of toxic shock syndrome.
Methods: We conducted a matched cohort study of 630 patients with toxic shock syndrome and 5009 healthy controls between 2006 and 2021 in Quebec, Canada. Outcomes included hospitalization for renal, cardiovascular, hepatic, and other morbidity during 15 years of follow-up.
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- Successfully tackling global sanitation issues is a significant challenge, and anaerobic digestion (AD) has emerged as a viable technology that can help by inactivating pathogens and recovering valuable resources like energy and nutrients.
- The article reviews various AD systems suitable for decentralized communities and developing countries, focusing on their design for effective pathogen inactivation.
- It also discusses the challenges faced in implementing AD, such as the need for better training, economic viability, and stakeholder involvement, while highlighting potential solutions like field studies, sanitation toolboxes, and incorporating AI into system monitoring.
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- Plant exposures can cause serious toxicity, often seen in emergency situations, with some plants leading to life-threatening conditions like cardiovascular failure.
- A case study is detailed where a 65-year-old patient developed a severe heart condition after mistakenly ingesting a toxic plant containing aconitine, despite extensive treatment efforts.
- The patient was successfully treated with extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) therapy, leading to recovery, which emphasizes the importance of proper plant identification and available management strategies for such toxicities.
Purpose: Diagnostic errors are a large burden on patient safety and improving clinical reasoning (CR) education could contribute to reducing these errors. To this end, calls have been made to implement CR training as early as the first year of medical school. However, much is still unknown about pre-clerkship students' reasoning processes.
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