One and Done: Single-Dose/Single-Use Vials Are Meant for One Patient

Author: Michael Bell, MD, Associate Director for Infection Control at CDC′s Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion. CDC released a report today detailing two outbreaks that occurred when healthcare providers failed to follow basic injection safety elements of Standard Precautions.  These breaches resulted in life-threatening – yet completely preventable – infections in a number of patients […]