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Hospital-acquired infections - what are the risks for the patient?
Being on inpatient treatment does not expect that hospital rooms can become a threat to your health. According to the rules of the sanitary and epidemiological regime, the interior of the hospital premises (wards, corridors, procedural, operating, reception and other rooms), as well as all objects and objects located inside the hospital premises, are treated with disinfectants, which are designed, if not to kill, then at least to neutralize infectious agents. So where does hospital-acquired infections (nosocomial infection) come from?
There are several possibilities for the transmission of infection within a hospital:
- Patient to patient,
- From the medical staff to the patient,
- As a result of poor-quality processing of equipment and facilities inside the hospital.
Ways of transmission of infection:
- Airborne,
- Household (handshake, through household items, etc.),
- At the time of the medical procedure (injections, endoscopy, catheterization, transfusion, transplantation, surgery, etc.),
- Post-traumatic.
Why is nosocomial infection dangerous? The hospital rooms are inhabited by modified microorganisms that have developed resistance to a variety of antimicrobial drugs. This is the whole difficulty of the situation when the patient cannot be cured in the absence of a reaction in pathogenic microorganisms to antimicrobial therapy. Science is constantly conducting research in this area, trying to invent more and more effective antimicrobial agents. But microorganisms have also succeeded in their evolution, adapting to the latest means for their destruction.
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