Eighty members and guests attended CAANN's Neonatal Infection Update on February 3, 2009, in the Stritch School of Medicine at Loyola University Medical Center. Our speakers included Kenneth Alexander, MD, PhD, Associate Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Chicago, and Terri Russell, DNP, APN/NNP-BC, Coordinator of the NNP Program at Rush University College of Nursing and NNP at the University of Chicago Comer Children's Hospital. Topics included "Sorting Out Antibiotics: A Systematic Approach to Antibiotic Selection," "Problem Infections in the NICU," and "Nosocomial Infections: Killing the Bugs or Improving the Procedures?"
Our next meeting will be Tuesday, May 19, 2009, at Loyola University Medical Center. We will be discussing Ethics in the NICU.
