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The spread of Community-associated methicillin-resistant
Staphylococcus aureus (CA-MRSA) has reached alarming rates.
A report published in Archives of Internal Medicine, one
of the JAMA/Archives journals, stated that cases of CA-MRSA
increased nearly 700% in Chicago’s Cook County Hospital
system between 2000 and 2005. The emergency department of
the Texas Children’s Hospital in Houston reported that
cases of CA-MRSA doubled during the same time frame. In fall
of 2007, Dr. Julie Gerberding, Director of the Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention, reported to the Congressional
Committee on Oversight and Government Reform that,
“Community- and healthcare-associated infections caused
by antimicrobial-resistant pathogens such as MRSA are critical
public health concerns, as made evident by the emergence
of CA-MRSA.”
The evidence of this near-epidemic spread of
CA-MRSA has created an immediate need for emergency physicians
to be given the most up-to-date education, including available
treatment and management guidelines.
Dr. Mitchell Cordover, an educator, practicing
emergency physician at a major medical center in St. Louis,
Missouri and Chairman of the American College of Emergency
Physicians’ (ACEP) Physician Well-being Committee, is
joined by Dr. Barry Fox, an educator and specialist in infectious
diseases, in a question and answer forum that provides essential
evidence-based guidance for emergency physicians. This information
will be helpful to all emergency department personnel, and
it is our hope that physicians will share this program with
their staff and colleagues.We hope you enjoy this CME experience.
We have done everything possible to maximize its convenience,
usefulness and value for you.
Yours truly,
William Oakey, President
TIV, Inc.
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