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Preventing Nosocomial Spread of MRSA is in Your Hands: Infection Control of MRSA - 0 views

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  • Preventing Nosocomial Spread of MRSA is in Your Hands
  • Many investigators contend that limiting spread of MRSA depends on health care personnel using proper hand hygiene practices, contact isolation, and barrier precautions in the clinical setting
  • posting reminders and signs on patient rooms and hospital units, and offering educational programs for health care workers.
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  • Handrub using ethanol (Sterillium®); waterless, alcohol-based, antiseptic handrub solution used for 30 seconds.
  • Handwash using chlorhexidine gluconate (Hibiscrub®); water-based, antiseptic handwashing soap used for 1 minut
  • ompared the effectiveness of three modes of different hand hygiene practice among health care workers:
  • Waterless, alcohol-based antiseptic gel handrub for 30 seconds.
  • The study showed that repeated handrubbing for 30 seconds with Sterillium was better tolerated than repeated handwashing with the antiseptic soap Hibiscrub during patient care.
  • There was greater compliance with the hand hygiene practice using the 30 second Sterillium handrubbing technique compared to the 1 minute handwashing technique with Hibiscrub.
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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.
  • Most are immunocompromised. Almost 100,000 of them die.
  • 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,
  • Know how hospital infections spread.
  • 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.
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