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The adoption and compliance to central line-associated bloodstream infection insertion and maintenance bundle programs in intensive care unit settings across Canada.
Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol
December 2024
BC Children's & BC Women's Hospitals, Vancouver, BC, Canada.
Article Synopsis
- Evidence-based bundles for inserting and maintaining central lines significantly lower the rates of CLABSI in ICUs.
- Researchers examined how well these prevention programs were adopted and followed in ICUs across a large network of Canadian hospitals.
- The study focused on the relationship between compliance with these bundles and actual CLABSI rates.
Antimicrobial Use among Adult Inpatients in Northern Canada, 2019-2021.
Can J Hosp Pharm
December 2024
, PharmD, is with the Université de Montréal and McGill University Health Centre, Montréal, Quebec.
Background: Antimicrobial use data from inpatients in northern Canada suitable to inform stewardship programs are limited.
Objective: As a special project of the Canadian Nosocomial Infection Surveillance Program, to describe antimicrobial use for inpatients in northern Canadian acute care hospitals.
Methods: Participating acute care hospitals serving adult or mixed adult and pediatric populations in northern Canada submitted annual data on the use of all systemic antimicrobials from 2019 to 2021.
Trends in SARS-CoV-2-related pediatric hospitalizations reported to the Canadian Nosocomial Infection Surveillance Program, March 2020 to December 2022.
Antimicrob Steward Healthc Epidemiol
October 2024
Department of Pediatrics, Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario, Ottawa, ON, Canada.
Article Synopsis
- * 81% of the 5,143 pediatric cases occurred during the Omicron period, with fewer children needing intensive care compared to pre-Omicron times (11% vs. 14%), but no notable difference in mortality rates was found.
- * The findings emphasize that many hospitalized children had pre-existing health conditions and indicate a surge in healthcare-associated COVID-19 cases during Omicron, although overall disease severity appeared to decline.
Analysis of invasive group A streptococcal puerperal sepsis in Calgary, Alberta: clinical consequences and policy implications.
Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol
October 2024
Department of Medicine, University of Calgary and Alberta Health Services, Calgary, AB, Canada.
We analyzed invasive group A streptococcal puerperal sepsis cases in a large health zone in Alberta, Canada between 2013 and 2022. Of the 21 cases, 85.7% were adjudicated as hospital/delivery-acquired, with 2 clusters having identical isolates found through whole genome sequencing.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFcomplex prevalence, spatial-temporal distribution, and contamination sources in Canadian aquatic environments.
Microbiol Spectr
October 2024
Ottawa Research and Development Centre, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Ontario, Canada.
(ACB) complex has been identified as a group of emerging opportunistic pathogens that cause nosocomial infections. The current study investigates the prevalence, distribution, and diversity of pathogenic ACB complex in various aquatic systems with different uses. Of the total 157 agricultural, raw drinking water intake, recreational beach, and wastewater treatment plant (WWTP) effluent samples, acinetobacters were isolated, quantified, and confirmed by genus- and ACB complex-specific PCR assays.
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