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Antibiotic Resistance—an Alarming Health Care Issue
Author(s) -
Twomey Carolyn
Publication year - 2000
Publication title -
aorn journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.222
H-Index - 43
eISSN - 1878-0369
pISSN - 0001-2092
DOI - 10.1016/s0001-2092(06)62039-5
Subject(s) - intensive care medicine , antibiotic resistance , infectious disease (medical specialty) , medicine , infection control , health care , antibiotics , disease , etiology , medical emergency , political science , biology , microbiology and biotechnology , pathology , law
Emerging highly infectious viral agents, resurgent diseases, and mutating bacteria have created a significant and costly health care crisis. Antibiotics that were proven to be definitive weapons against infectious disease now are losing their effectiveness. This article describes the etiology and impact of this global problem and offers perioperative nurses and other health care professionals guidelines about basic infection control and infectious disease prevention to help combat this crisis. AORN J 72 (July 2000) 64–75.