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kogburn084

Preventing Hospital-Acquired Infections - 0 views

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  • Know how hospital infections spread.
  • Choose the cleanest hospital for your care or treatment.
  • Choose a doctor with a lower infection rate.
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  • Prepare ahead of time for your hospital stay.
  • Your goal as a hospital patient will be to avoid being a hospital infection statistic.
  • Plan for times you can't advocate for yourself.
  • How to Prevent Hospital-Acquired Infections
  • he only patients hospitalized are those who are very sick,
  • Hospitals are dangerous places to be for several reasons.
  • need surgery that can't be performed in an outpatient facility,
  • who have severe injuries. In all cases, these patients are at grave risk for acquiring infections, called "nosocomial" infections
  • According to the CDC, about 1.7 million Americans are infected in hospitals every year
  • According to the CDC, about 1.7 million Americans are infected in hospitals every year.
  • Know how hospital infections spread.
  • Almost 100,000 of them die
  • Your goal as a hospital patient will be to avoid being a hospital infection statistic.
  • While it is impossible to prevent every nosocomial infection, here are some steps you can take to attempt to keep yourself, or your loved one, from acquiring an infection while in the hospital:
  • While it is impossible to prevent every nosocomial infection,
  • Most are immunocompromised. Almost 100,000 of them die.
  • nsist on hand washing.
  • Choose the cleanest hospital for your care or treatment.
  • Choose a doctor with a lower infection rate.
  • Prepare ahead of time for your hospital stay.
  • Insist on hand washing.
  • Prevent the spread of germs from unsafe surfaces.
  • Insist catheters be removed or replaced as soon as possible.
  • Plan for times you can't advocate for yourself.
destinytaylor

The silent epidemic: CA-MRSA and HA-MRSA - 0 views

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MRSA Challenge1

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  • The CDC defines hospital-acquired MRSA (HA-MRSA) in persons who have had frequent or recent contact with hospitals or healthcare facilities (such as nursing homes or dialysis centers) within the previous year, have recently undergone an invasive medical procedure, or are immunocompromised.
  • MRSA may be more easily transmitted when the following five Cs are present: Crowding frequent skin-to-skin Contact Compromised skin (cuts or abrasions) Contaminated items and surfaces lack of Cleanliness.
  • Locations where the five Cs are common include schools, dormitories, military barracks, households, correctional facilities, and daycare centers. C
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  • 2005, admissions were triple the number in 2000 and 10-fold higher
  • In 2005 in th
  • e United
  • States alone, 368,600 hospital admissions for MRSA—including 94,000 invasive infections—resulted in 18,650 deaths.
  • MRSA infections that are acquired by persons who have not been recently (within the past year) hospitalized or had a medical procedure (such as dialysis, surgery, catheters) are known as community-acquired MRSA (CA-MRSA) infections, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
  • infections was cellulitis and abscess,
  • Community outbreaks have been reported in sports teams, child care attendees, prison inmates, and diverse populations where habitation is relatively concentrated.
  • HA-MRSA and CA-MRSA have distinct clinical differences, both are transmitted in the same fashion—most frequently through direct skin-to-skin contact or contact with shared items or surfaces (such as towels or bandages) that have come into contact with someone else’s colonized or infected skin.
  • death rate, length of stay, and cost of treating patients with MRSA are more than double other hospital admissions.
  • Technological advances in screening, as well as prevention through vaccination, are being developed
  • 58 percent of MRSA infections originate in the community
  • MRSA accounts for 60 percent of all staphylococcal infections.
  • From 1999 through 2005, infections outside the lungs or blood tripled
  • MRSA has evolved unpredictable resistance and epidemiology patterns in response to decades of successful antibiotic treatments that have been prescribed in all environments and have saved millions of lives.
  • The most frequent primary diagnosis associated with other S aureus–related infections was cellulitis and abscess, followed by postoperative infection, infections from an implanted device (Fig. 1), or graft and osteomyelitis.
  • As MRSA spreads into hospitals from the community, current insurance company and proposed governmental policies that penalize the healthcare system may be inappropriate.
  • MRSA infections that are acquired by persons who have not been recently (within the past year) hospitalized or had a medical procedure (such as dialysis, surgery, catheters) are known as community-acquired MRSA (CA-MRSA) infections, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
  • The number of MRSA fatalities in 2005 surpassed the number of fatalities from hurricane Katrina and AIDS combined and is substantially higher than fatalities at the peak of the U. S. polio epidemic.
  • MRSA infections that are acquired by persons who have not been recently (within the past year) hospitalized or had a medical procedure (such as dialysis, surgery, catheters) are known as community-acquired MRSA (CA-MRSA) infections, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Community outbreaks have been reported in sports teams, child care attendees, prison inmates, and diverse populations where habitation is relatively concentrated.
  • dianavillalpando on 08 Sep 14
     
    More info about MRSA and the definition.
  • Jasiel Sb on 03 Sep 15
     
    This Website Informs You Of What MRSA, The Statistics Of It And How You Get It
  • destinytaylor on 07 Sep 15
     
    yellow: signs and synmptoms blue: prevention inccubation period pink: the number of saved lives and deaths.
julia roush

MRSA: Contagious, Symptoms, Casues, Prevention, Treatments - 0 views

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mrsa hospital statistic

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  • invasive MRSA infections that began in hospitals declined 8% between 2011 and 2013.
  • invasive MRSA infections that began in hospitals declined 8% between 2011 and 2013.
  • invasive MRSA infections that began in hospitals declined 8% between 2011 and 2013.
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  • invasive MRSA infections that began in hospitals declined 8% between 2011 and 2013.
  • MRSA infections that began in hospitals declined 8% between 2011 and 2013.
  • MRSA is also showing up in healthy people who have not been hospitalized.
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