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I care for transplant patients, immunocompromised, so many have MRSA, VRE, and a host of other things, (some I hadn't heard of until I entered "Transplant Land":D). And many of our ICU rooms aren't rooms but bays,with curtains so maintaining precautions...it's difficult to say the least.
Are they talking about a mutant strain of Vanc resistant MRSA?
There are multiple cases of MRSA treated with Vanc and the pts remain colonized so we treat them as infected upon every admission. I remember pts with MRSA in the nares being treated with Bactroban for example so Vanc isn't the only treatment per se and Vanc isn't the cure all, unfortunately.
NRSKarenRN, BSN, RN
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by Ken Segel & Naida Grunden
Pittsburgh Hospital News
November 03
http://www.pghhospitalnews.com/110301PRHI.htm
Read about Pittsburgh Regional Healthcare Initiative to stop the spread of MRSA.