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Issue number 964: November 28, 2011 |
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Contents
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- CDC
releases ACIP recommendations for immunizing healthcare personnel
- Reminder:
November issues of Needle Tips and Vaccinate Adults available online
- AAP News
publishes article about the many children who are missing their
supplemental dose of PCV 13
- Spotlight
on immunize.org: Some of IAC's most popular handouts for patients are
offered in several languages
- IAC's
Video of the Week features a physician recounting his and his family's
first-hand experience with measles
- Reminder:
CDC's December 1 Net Conference will cover influenza and HPV vaccination
and National Influenza Vaccination Week
- Influenza
vaccination is recommended for almost everyone, so please keep vaccinating
- IAC posts
Spanish and Chinese translations of the VIS for meningococcal vaccines
- Online
newsletter describes activities planned for underserved populations during
National Influenza Vaccination Week
- Bulk
quantities of the 2011-12 Influenza Vaccine Pocket Guides and PPSV Pocket
Guides available--FREE!--from the National Influenza Vaccine Summit
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Award-winning DVD! "Immunization Techniques: Best Practices with Infants,
Children, and Adults"--from the California Department of Public Health,
Immunization Branch
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AAFP, American Academy of Family Physicians; AAP,
American Academy of Pediatrics; ACIP, Advisory Committee on Immunization
Practices; AMA, American Medical Association; CDC, Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention; FDA, Food and Drug Administration; IAC, Immunization
Action Coalition; MMWR, Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report; NCIRD,
National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases; NIVS, National
Influenza Vaccine Summit; VIS, Vaccine Information Statement; VPD,
vaccine-preventable disease; WHO, World Health Organization. |
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Issue 964: November 28, 2011 |
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CDC releases ACIP
recommendations for immunizing healthcare
personnel
On November 25, CDC published Recommendations and
Reports
titled "Immunization of Health-Care Personnel:
Recommendations of the Advisory Committee on Immunization
Practices (ACIP)." The Summary is reprinted below.
This report updates the previously published summary of
recommendations for vaccinating health-care personnel (HCP)
in the United States (CDC. Immunization of health-care
workers: recommendations of the Advisory Committee on
Immunization Practices [ACIP] and the Hospital Infection
Control Practices Advisory Committee [HICPAC]. MMWR
1997;46[No. RR-18]). This report was reviewed by and
includes input from the Healthcare (formerly Hospital)
Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee. These
updated recommendations can assist hospital administrators,
infection-control practitioners, employee health clinicians,
and HCP in optimizing infection prevention and control
programs. The recommendations for vaccinating HCP are
presented by disease in two categories: (1) those diseases
for which vaccination or documentation of immunity is
recommended because of risks to HCP in their work settings
for acquiring disease or transmitting to patients and (2)
those for which vaccination might be indicated in certain
circumstances. Background information for each vaccine-preventable disease and specific recommendations for use of
each vaccine are presented. Certain infection-control
measures that relate to vaccination also are included in
this report. In addition, ACIP recommendations for the
remaining vaccines that are recommended for certain or all
adults are summarized, as are considerations for catch-up
and travel vaccinations and for work restrictions. This
report summarizes all current ACIP recommendations for
vaccination of HCP and does not contain any new
recommendations or policies.
The recommendations provided in this report apply, but are
not limited, to HCP in acute-care hospitals; long-term-care
facilities (e.g., nursing homes and skilled nursing
facilities); physician's offices; rehabilitation centers;
urgent care centers, and outpatient clinics as well as to
persons who provide home health care and emergency medical
services.
To access the complete ready-to-print (PDF) version of the
recommendations, go to: http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/pdf/rr/rr6007.pdf
The web text (HTML) version is available at
http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/rr6007a1.htm
Continuing Education credit is available. For details, go
to: http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/cme/serial_conted.html
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Reminder: November issues of Needle Tips and Vaccinate
Adults available online
The November issues of Needle Tips and Vaccinate
Adults are
available online for viewing, downloading, and printing. The
content of Vaccinate Adults is identical to that of Needle
Tips, minus the pediatric content.
To download the entire issue (PDF) of Needle Tips, go to:
http://www.immunize.org/nslt.d/n50/n50.pdf
To download the entire issue (PDF) of Vaccinate Adults, go
to: http://www.immunize.org/va/va33.pdf
To access the November Needle Tips table of contents and
magazine-viewer option, as well as back issues, go to:
http://www.immunize.org/nt
To access the November Vaccinate Adults table of contents
and magazine-viewer option, as well as back issues, go to:
http://www.immunize.org/va
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AAP News publishes article about the many children who
are missing their supplemental dose of PCV 13
The November issue of AAP News, the news magazine
of the
American Academy of Pediatrics, includes an article that
encourages healthcare providers to ensure that their eligible
patients receive a supplemental dose of 13-valent pneumococcal
conjugate vaccine (PCV13).
ACIP recommendations issued in 2010 call for doses of PCV13
to be given to children at ages 2, 4, 6, and 12 through 15
months. ACIP also recommends that children through age 59
months who already received an age-appropriate series of PCV7
receive a supplemental dose of PCV13.
National survey data indicate that about half of children
ages 12 through 23 months have received a supplemental dose,
but only one-quarter of children ages 24 through 59 months
have received a supplemental dose. To remedy this situation,
healthcare providers are urged to review the immunization
history of all children ages 14 through 59 months who come
into the office for any reason and to immunize those
children who have not yet received the supplemental dose of
PCV13.
Written by Larry K. Pickering, MD, FAAP, the full text of
the article is available at no charge at
http://aapnews.aappublications.org/content/early/2011/10/21/aapnews.20111021-1.full.pdf+html
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Spotlight on immunize.org: Some of IAC's most popular
handouts for patients are offered in several languages
Looking for quick access to translated
immunization
materials for patients in Spanish, Arabic, Chinese, Farsi
(spoken in Bahrain, Iran, and United Arab Emirates), French,
Hmong, Japanese, Karen (spoken in Burma and Thailand),
Korean, Russian, Somali, Tagalog, Turkish, or Vietnamese?
Look no further. Many of IAC's most popular pieces are
available in several languages. All are in ready-to-print
(PDF) format.
To access some of IAC's popular handouts for patients in
various languages, visit: http://www.immunize.org/handouts/?f=6
In addition, IAC makes Vaccine Information Statements (VISs)
available on its website. To access IAC's VIS translations
in more than 35 languages, visit http://www.immunize.org/vis/?f=9
If you need an IAC handout or VIS in a language not
currently available on IAC's website, please consider
translating the piece for IAC and then sharing it with the
world via immunize.org. For details about providing
translations for IAC, please visit this link:
http://www.immunize.org/translate.asp or email
admininfo@immunize.org
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IAC's Video of the Week features a physician recounting
his and his family's first-hand experience with measles
IAC encourages IAC Express readers to watch a
4-minute video
of Dr. John Swartzberg recounting how he caught measles from
a patient and subsequently passed the disease along to his
wife and son. The video is part of the Shot by Shot
collection of stories of people who have been touched by
vaccine-preventable diseases. Shot by Shot is a project of
the California Immunization Coalition.
The video will be available on the home page of IAC's
website through December 4. To access it, go to:
http://www.immunize.org and click on the image under the
words Video of the Week.
Remember to bookmark IAC's home page to view a new video
every Monday.
To access the archives of IAC's Videos of the Week, go to:
http://www.immunize.org/votw
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Reminder: CDC's December 1 Net Conference will cover
influenza and HPV vaccination and National Influenza
Vaccination Week
The next "Current Issues in Immunization" Net
Conference
will be held on December 1 from noon to 1 p.m. ET. Joseph
Bresee, MD, FAAP, and others from CDC will make
presentations on influenza and HPV vaccination and National
Influenza Vaccination Week. Andrew Kroger, MD, MPH, will
moderate the discussion.
Registration is limited and will close on November 29 or
when the course is full. To register, go to:
http://www2.cdc.gov/vaccines/ed/ciinc
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Influenza vaccination is recommended for almost everyone,
so please keep vaccinating
Influenza vaccination is recommended for everyone
age 6
months and older, so please keep vaccinating your patients.
Following is a list of resources related to influenza
disease and vaccination for healthcare professionals and the
public.
Don't forget that National Influenza Vaccination Week (NIVW)
is scheduled for December 4-10. CDC's NIVW web section
includes resources to help organizations spread the word
about the importance of administering and receiving
influenza vaccine throughout the influenza season. To access
them, go to: http://www.cdc.gov/flu/nivw
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IAC posts Spanish and Chinese translations of the VIS for
meningococcal vaccines
IAC recently posted Spanish and Chinese
translations of the
VIS for meningococcal vaccines on its website. IAC thanks
the California Department of Public Health, Immunization
Branch, for the translations.
To access the new translations of the VIS for meningococcal
vaccines, as well as the English version, go to:
http://www.immunize.org/vis/vis_meningococcal.asp
For information about the use of VISs, and for VISs in more
than 35 languages, visit IAC's VIS web section at
http://www.immunize.org/vis
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Online newsletter describes activities planned for
underserved populations during National Influenza
Vaccination Week
The November issue of the online publication
"Influential
News" focuses on activities five partner organizations have
held or will hold to raise awareness of the importance of
increasing influenza immunization among underserved
populations. "Influential News" is a publication of the
National Influenza Vaccination Disparities Partnership,
which is supported by CDC.
To access the November issue of "Influential News," go to:
http://www.cdc.gov/flu/pdf/nivw/nivdp_newsletter_11_2011.pdf
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Bulk quantities of the 2011-12 Influenza Vaccine Pocket
Guides and PPSV Pocket Guides available--FREE!--from the
National Influenza Vaccine Summit
To aid in efforts to vaccinate against influenza
and
pneumococcal disease, readers are invited to place orders
now for bulk quantities of the National Influenza Vaccine
Summit's 2011-12 Influenza Vaccine Pocket Information Guide
and Pneumococcal Polysaccharide Vaccination (PPSV) Pocket
Guide. Both are free--you can order them in the hundreds or
thousands!
These laminated, 3.75 x 6.75-inch, 2-color cards serve as a
convenient reference for front-line healthcare professionals
who vaccinate patients. Place a bulk order now, and your
organization will be ready to educate healthcare
professionals at upcoming immunization training sessions and
conferences. Each staff person who administers influenza or
PPSV vaccine needs these handy resources.
See an image of the influenza vaccine pocket guide at
http://www.immunize.org/pocketguides/pocketguide_flu.pdf
See an image of the PPSV pocket guide at
http://www.immunize.org/pocketguides/pocketguide_ppsv.pdf
The 2011-12 influenza pocket guide and PPSV pocket guide are
designed to be used by healthcare professionals only; THEY
ARE NOT PATIENT HANDOUTS.
HOW TO ORDER
Place your order at http://www.preventinfluenza.org/pocketguides There is no
cost for the pocket guides, shipping, or handling within the
U.S.
If you have questions, email admininfo@immunize.org
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Award-winning DVD! "Immunization Techniques: Best
Practices with Infants, Children, and Adults"--from the
California Department of Public Health, Immunization
Branch
In 2010, the California Department of Public
Health (CDPH),
Immunization Branch, updated its award-winning training
video, "Immunization Techniques: Best Practices with
Infants, Children, and Adults." The 25-minute program can be
used to train new employees and to refresh the skills of
experienced staff. The video demonstrates the skills and
techniques needed to administer vaccines to patients of all
ages.
Prices start at $17 each for 1-9 copies and are greatly
reduced for large orders, dropping to $3 each for 1,000-1,499 copies.
To learn more about the DVD, and find out how to order it,
go to: http://www.immunize.org/dvd
For quotes on larger quantities, call (651) 647-9009 or
email admininfo@immunize.org
The Immunization Action Coalition is the only nationwide
vendor of the DVD.
Note for healthcare settings located in California: Contact
your local health department immunization program for a free
copy.
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