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Effectiveness of Bacteria-Controlled Nursing Units in Preventing Cross-Colonization With Resistant Bacteria in Severely Burned Children

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Joan M. Weber ,
Robert L. Sheridan ,
John T. Schulz ,
Ronald G. Tompkins  and
Colleen M. Ryan
Joan M. Weber
Affiliation:
Shriners Burns Hospitals, Sumner Redstone Burn Center, and the Surgery Service, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
Robert L. Sheridan
Affiliation:
Shriners Burn Hospitals, Sumner Redstone Burn Center, and the Surgery Service, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
John T. Schulz
Affiliation:
Shriners Burn Hospitals, Sumner Redstone Burn Center, and the Surgery Service, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
Ronald G. Tompkins
Affiliation:
Shriners Burn Hospitals, Sumner Redstone Burn Center, and the Surgery Service, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
Colleen M. Ryan*
Affiliation:
Shriners Burn Hospitals, Sumner Redstone Burn Center, and the Surgery Service, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
*
Bigelow 1302, Surgical Services, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA 02114
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Abstract

Bacteria-controlled nursing units (BCNUs) are laminar air-flow patient isolation units. The rate of cross-colonization with resistant organisms in 66 critically ill pediatric burn patients with massive open wounds and ventilators housed in BCNUs during 5 years was examined and found to be extremely low (3.2 cases per 1,000 patient-days)

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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 23 , Issue 9 , September 2002 , pp. 549 - 551
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Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 2002

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