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Have you ever been admitted to the hospital for surgery or illness? Have you ever caught an infection unrelated to your surgery or illness? If so, you have been the victim of a nosocomial infection also known as hospital-acquired infections.
C. difficile, MRSA (methicillin resistant staphylococcus aureus), are well known, but there are many others.
Do you know that you have more chances to die from a nosocomial infection than from a car accident?
Every year in Quebec, 90 000 people are afflicted by these infections and, of that number, 4000 die immediately.
A minimum of 50% of these infections could be avoided by better prevention and control measures such as strict hand hygiene.
Nosocomial infections are also very costly to the health system. On average they cost 180 millions dollars yearly.
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Written by Christine Besson
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Sunday, 01 May 2005 |
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 15 April 2005
Combatting
health care associated infections: Bacteria may be super resistant, hospitals
too!
Le Point, a
French periodical, has just published its annual “hospitals black list” . This
report denounces the fact that 16 years after the first program to combat these
infections was launched in France, 25% of hospitals still do not have any
control measures or program. However, it is well documented that measuring the
rate of infections, specially amongst post surgical patients, is the most efficient method to control post surgical
infectious risks (according to Gilles Brücker, director of l’Institut de Veille
Sanitaire – Sanitary Satch Institute). According to Le Point, one out of 10
hospitals do not use the best product for hand hygiene, a simple water-alcohol
solution that helps to reduce the level of hospital acquired infections by
half.
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