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Professor discusses what Victoria must now do amid latest COVID-19 cluster 25/05/2021|6min
Infectious diseases expert Professor Peter Collignon has spoken to Sky News about what Victoria should now do amid the latest COVID-19 outbreak.
“They need to actually get lots of testing done of people in the region,” he told Sky News host Chris Kenny.
“They need to actually have people who are close contacts, be in quarantine .
“And basically, try the best they can to work out where this case is related to, presumably, the other case that came from Adelaide – because the genomic sequencing, I understand, is very similar or the same”.
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New standard to improve care of 7.7 million Australians who receive IV cannulas or ‘drips’ each year
For the 7.7 million Australians who have a peripheral intravenous catheter (PIVC) – also known as a cannula or ‘drip’ – inserted each year, their hospital experience is set to become safer.
With up to 40%
1-2 of all first-time attempts to insert a PIVC in an adult failing, many patients face the prospect of undergoing multiple painful attempts before a PIVC is successfully inserted. Once inserted, there is also a risk of complications, some of which are serious.
From today, a new clinical standard will change our approach to the use of PIVCs, by providing national guidance on best practice care and skillful use of PIVCs – and prompting health workers to consider whether a cannula is really necessary before insertion.
Just when things seemed like they couldn’t get any worse in India, they have. Doctors in India are finding that patients that are receiving treatment for COVID-19 are also infected with a rare “black fungus” called mucormycosis, a rare but deadly infection.
Just when things seemed like they couldn’t get any worse in India, they have. Doctors are finding that patients that are receiving treatment for COVID-19 are also infected with a rare “black fungus” called mucormycosis, a rare but deadly infection.
In the Indian state of Gujarat, 300 patients have been identified as those with mucormycosis, prompting the health ministry to release advisory guidelines on how to properly treat the infection.
Mucormycosis “is very serious, has a high mortality, and you need surgery and lots of drugs to get on top of it once it takes hold”, said Professor Peter Collignon, who sits on the World Health Organization’s expert committee on antibiotic resistance and infectious diseases, to The Guardian.