Now, here in the bone marrow unit, where I'm required to be in isolation to prevent infections, I'm surrounded 24/7 by the gaze of people who, first and foremost, are concerned with what I have — not necessarily who I am.
Active surveillance of all HAIs was performed by trained infection control nurses using Centers for Disease Control and Prevention CDCC) definitions [ 23] in the following units: bone marrow transplantation unit, step-down units, adult intensive care, pediatric and neonatal intensive care units.
ICU intensive care unit, ER emergency room, BMT unit bone marrow transplant unit.
An outbreak of vancomycin-resistant enterococcus (VRE) occurred in May through June 2000 involving two units: the bone marrow transplant unit and the general pediatric intensive care unit PICU.
Specialty-specific VRE isolation was as follows: general surgical units (44 patients), bone marrow transplant unit (35 patients), general medical units (33 patients), cardiothoracic surgery (27 patients), nephrology (26 patients), haematooncology (22 patients), gastroenterology (17 patients), urology (17 patients), and the infectious diseases unit (11 patients).
We conducted active surveillance for CLABSIs in 2 pediatric intensive care units (PICU), 5 neonatal intensive care units (NICU), 2 oncology units and the Bone Marrow Transplant Unit (BMTU) from September 2012 to February 2013.
Controlled environments included a hematology unit (eight rooms), a bone marrow transplant unit (six rooms), a solid-organ transplantation unit (four rooms), a neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) (four rooms), and a pediatric onco-hematology unit (five rooms).
CR: conditioning regimen; BMT: bone marrow transplantation; Units – NP-SH: nmol NP-SH/mL erythrocytes.
CR: conditioning regimen; BMT: bone marrow transplantation; Units – TBARS: nmol TBARS/mL plasma.
CR: conditioning regimen; BMT: bone marrow transplantation; Units – P-SH: nmol P-SH/mL plasma.
