ADVIN.ORG - Association for the Défense of Victims of Nosocomial Infections

Source: AJC Atlanta Journal Constitution, June, 20 2011
»As a recent series in The Atlanta Journal-Constitution highlights, the risks of infection during a hospital stay can be deadly. Hospital-acquired infections are the fourth leading cause of death in the United States and cost hospitals more than $7 billion last year. Unless hospitals take aggressive action to prevent and protect, the problem will continue, and thousands more patients will die, many of them needlessly.
It’s doesn’t have to be that way.

The Food and Drug Administration has recently approved a new drug that seems to give good results in treating C.difficile, a  resistant bacteria haunting hospitals particularly in Canada and the United-States.
The drug, called Dificid, is the first new medicine in 25 years approved to treat diarrhea caused by Clostridium difficile, a nasty and persistent bacterium that one study suggests may have surpassed the better known MRSA as the leading hospital-acquired infection.

Source: AJIC, May 06, 2011
DR. D. Zoutman, Dr M. Shannon, Dr A. Mandel

«The ozone hydrogen peroxide vapor system provides a very high level of disinfection of steel and gauze surfaces against health care-associated bacterial pathogens. The system is an advanced oxidative process providing a rapid and effective means of disinfecting health care surfaces and spaces..... Ozone gas at 50-500 ppm was combined with 3% hydrogen peroxide vapor in a test chamber and upscaled in rooms measuring 82 m3 and 90 m3 in area. Test organisms included methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, vancomycin-resistant enterococcus, Escherichia coli, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Clostridium difficile, and Bacillus subtilis spores dried onto steel discs or cotton gauze pads.

As part of the 5th May campaign this year, the World Health Organisation are inviting all healthcare facilities to participate in their Global Survey Project by completing the WHO online Self Assessment Framework tool. The main objective of the Global Survey Project is to gather a global picture of progress regarding hand hygiene and to estimate how much the SAVE LIVES: Clean Your Hands global campaign promotes actions taken by healthcare facilities. Some of you may have already completed a modified version of this survey, but we would invite you to complete this global version to assist WHO. By submitting the data in this survey, you will be able to automatically calculate your score and will contribute to the global