Fierce Healthcare September 2, 2021
Reports of several types of healthcare-associated infections skyrocketed in 2020 as hospitals were contending with the COVID-19 pandemic, according to new national surveillance data.
Per a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) analysis published Thursday in Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology, quarterly incidence of healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) rose as much as 47% year over year with central line-associated bloodstream infections leading the way.
These specific infections are tied to catheters inserted directly into large blood vessels over long periods, which were in heavier use while treating COVID-19 patients.
There also were increases in ventilator-associated events (VAEs), which saw a quarterly year-over-year increase as high as 44.8%; quarterly methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, which rose as much as 33.8% year over year;...
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