Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), asometimes referred to as a super staph infection, is a specific strain of the Staphylococcus aureus bacterium that has develope...
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1 million of the 35 million patients hospitalized in the U.S. per year will get a hospital acquired infection..MRSA and E Coli being the most common. The transmission of most of these is from healhcare worker to patient. A new study shows that wearing antimicrobial gloves (latex gloves coated with an antibiotic) significantly reduces transmission of infection. This is a big deal...i see this coming our way....
Dr O. Posted on 09/29/06, 12:09 am |
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While waiting in the chemo delivery area of a major Cancer Center, my husband and I witnessed something that probably happens often. We watched a nurse preparing to deliver chemo to a fellow cancer patient. She retrived a pair of gloves from the glove box. Then she shook her head, dropped the retrived gloves on an aged magazine lying next to the glove box, and left the area. Soon she returned, picked up the gloves from the magazine and put them on.
A friend who'd accompanied me on a visit to my surgeon was dismayed to see him wash his hands when he entered the exam room, shake hands with me, shake hands also with HER, then proceed to examine me. Since I'd fallen victim to MRSA after my cancer surgery, I've become very sensitive to the incidental actions by medical personnel that possibly contaminate patients. I'm sure it's very difficult to be constantly careful when under such pressure and in a hurry, but the most highly developed equipment can't compensate for neglectful actions. Jessie 
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