HCTW news brief: Scrubbing patients can prevent infection
Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, January 15, 2010
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More than 300,000 patients develop a surgical site infection in the United States each year, and the cause may be the bugs they bring with them into the hospital.
The New York Times recently reported on a couple of studies that show scrubbing patients free from the bacteria they carry on their skin drastically reduced the amount of infections that occurred.
One of the studies involved testing patients for bacteria using nasal swabs. Those who tested positive underwent five days of treatment with antibiotic ointment on their noses (where the bacteria is carried) and showered with soap treated with chlorhexidine. These patients were 60% less likely to develop an infection than the control group.
The findings may help hospitals reduce the amount of infections patients develop while hospitalized, simply by eliminating dangerous bacteria those patients already carry.
Source: The New York Times
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