MRSA Cases Dropping in Hospital ICUs

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Important among these improvements are changes in central line insertion techniques and the maintenance of such lines. The implementation of techniques in hospitals to prevent the transmission of MRSA between patients has also been invaluable, Imperato added.

"The results of this study demonstrate that when appropriate prevention techniques are scrupulously implemented in the health-care setting, the incidence of MRSA and other forms of infection can be dramatically reduced," he said. "Such preventive measures, now being more aggressively applied in most health-care settings should, hopefully, greatly reduce the incidence of all forms of MRSA infections."

Dr. Marc Siegel, an associate professor of medicine at New York University School of Medicine in New York City, agreed. But he said that hospital infection prevention efforts also need to cast a wider net.

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"We have been obsessing over MRSA at the risk of losing site of the larger picture, which is improving our surveillance and eradication of all pathogenic organisms in hospitals," Siegel said. "The point this paper is making is that the overall number of infections is going down, including MRSA."

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For more information on MRSA, visit the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

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