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Valentine - Do you need Surgical Precautions?

27/5/2014

One of the great things about having a website is that I can
tell what people are searching for on Google and then blog about it. Something that has cropped up a few times is whether there are any specific operating theatre precautions for PVL positive Staphylococcus aureus. That’s Panton-Valentine Leukocidin not St. Valentine...this is not a dating blog!

PVL positive Staphylococcus aureus

19/5/2014

I have been asked many times over the last few years about
prophylactic antibiotics for patients with recurrent skin and soft tissue infections such as abscesses, boils, furuncles and carbuncles caused by Staphylococcus aureus. These patients have often been referred to an immunologist for investigation of underlying immunodeficiency and had numerous investigations but nothing wrong has ever been identified.

Micro-organisms are "Getting Ahead" and Therapeutic Options are Reducing

7/5/2014

In April of this year the World Health Organisation released a sobering report on the state of antibiotic resistance internationally. This is the latest in a long line of reports since the Department of Health published “The Path of Least Resistance” in 1998, which made the following key points:
• Antibiotics have enabled huge advances in medicine
• Antibiotic use selects for resistant bacteria
• Resistant bacteria accumulate and spread
• Resistance increases clinical complications, lengthens
hospital stay and adds cost
• Development of new antibiotics is slow, expensive and
cannot be guaranteed
• With more resistance and few new antimicrobial agents,
modern medicine is threatened

Valentine - Do you need Surgical Precautions?

PVL positive Staphylococcus aureus

Micro-organisms are "Getting Ahead" and Therapeutic Options are Reducing

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