Posted on 02/22/2010 2:19:05 PM PST by decimon
WASHINGTON (AFP) – Nearly 50,000 US medical patients die every year of blood poisoning or pneumonia they picked up in hospital, a study published Monday shows.
Hospital-acquired sepsis and pneumonia in 2006 claimed 48,000 lives, led to 2.3 million extra patient-days in hospital and cost 8.1 billion dollars, according to the study, led by researchers from the Center for Disease Dynamics, Economics and Policy at Washington-based Resources for the Future.
Together, the two hospital-acquired infections -- also called nosocomial infections -- account for about one-third of the 1.7 million infections US patients pick up every year while in hospital, the study published in the Archives of Internal Medicine shows.
They are also responsible for nearly half of the 99,000 deaths a year from hospital-acquired infections reported by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
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BLEACH cleaning cloths...did it when my husband had his knee partially replaced last June. I wiped every surface he might touch down. They drag those buckets of dirty mop water from room to room. Floor to floor.
I was in the hospital for 6 weeks once. I was shocked by the lax ways my room was cleaned every day. Until then, I had no idea how germ-infested hospitals were. I had thought they would be bastions of cleanliness.
My Dad died from a hospital-acquired infection.
Yep did same thing for my elderly Mom and friends........those clorox cleaning wipes are good as well as a little distilled water and clorox in a spray bottle and some plain ole kimwipes from granger.......3 passes on all surfaces and we were done. Major part of my day job deals with cross contamination (reason I don’t eat at subway) and I was at the hospital each morning an evening with my girl friday and friends to super clean my friends or families hospital room...... methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus was / is the threat we feared for our loved ones.
Glad you made it! The hand sanitizers seem to make people lazy in regards to hand washing. I always ask anyone coming to treat me to please wash their hands with soap. Soap and running water will go a long way, while hand sanitizers are convenient but less effective on some organisms. Also easy to miss a few surfaces with the sanitizer because it tends to provide a false sense of security, so they are rushing around relying on sanitizers.
my wife is going through this right now. she’s been under since january. fell down the stairs on New Years eve, been at hospital since. been gettign sicker and sicker. funny that her injuries are all just about healed now, yet she cannot breathe without a machine, and does not respond.
Yeah, I would feel a lot better if they sprayed the whole rooms with sanitizers. I was talking to my regular doctor about what they do in their facilty and he claimed they did that every night now.
P.S. Did they do a brain scan on your wife yet? While I was under they did one on me, at least that is what my wife told me.
IOW, they are "set-ups" for HAP...( Hospital Acquired Pneumonia )....It's not that the hospital did anything wrong....It's just the way it is....
We have sick immuno-compromised folks entering hospitals...that have...( just like your kitchen has...) bugs in it.
Most folks don't seem to get..they most likely have Staph, Ecoli, etc.. ...on or in them.
I'm so sorry to hear it.
I wish I could be there to help you. I most certainly would if I could...!!
My prayers and thoughts are with you.
If I can help please let me know,....
We have most of these "bugs" out there "all" the time...but healthy people have good immune systems.
Immuno-compromised people don't.
That's how it is....
That’s the catch 22 of going to a hospital or even a doctors office with a lung infection. I’ve thought about
asking my doctor to treat me in the parking lot to his office rather than actually having to go inside the waiting room “den of death”.
Hope it works out for you...
If in some minor way I could help...let me know.
It killed my father, but it was a blessing, he was facing some ugly chemo and radiation that would have slowly killed him and his quality of life would have been horrible.
Lots of patients, lots of diseases, lots of chances for infection, its roulette.
I can't think of a response other than that I understand.
I used to be married to a hospital nurse. She and I were sick all the time the first couple years of marriage. In
hindsight I should have sprayed her down at the door!
Lot's a people should be sprayed down.....
Thanks for a good laugh!!
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