At the hospital, except, of course, Dr. House, doctors ply their services in pure white gowns, as if straight out of a tub of bleach. Merely looking at them, they feel the clean, yet their coats can swarm of highly pathogenic germs, sometimes even fatal!
It's disturbing discovery made by a team of Israeli researchers Shaare Zedek Medical Center in Jerusalem. In this university hospital of 550 beds, they collected 238 coats or coats belonging to 75 nurses and 60 doctors and have taken samples of the sleeve, the abdominal area and pockets they put in culture. Results: 65% of uniforms belonging to the nurses and 60% of physicians were found to carry pathogens. Worse, as many as 21 nurses and held six doctors were colonized by strains of bacteria resistant to multiple antibiotics, including the dreaded methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), found eight times, which can cause severe infections skin, blood or lungs, followed in some cases serious complications can result in death.
Hand Hygiene
In this study in the American Journal of Infection Control, 58% of 135 doctors and nurses, however, the participants claim that changing uniforms every day and 77% of them even consider that the level of hygiene in their uniform is between fair and excellent. Like what white is misleading.
Although the study authors state that the blouses are not a direct risk of transmission of infection, the study is a reminder that there is a close link between the proportion of antibiotic-resistant strains and patients have a weakened immune system. Do not panic, "all the clothing worn by humans are contaminated with microorganisms. The cornerstone of infection control is in hand hygiene to prevent the spread of germs from contaminated areas to patients," said Russell Olmsted, president of the American Association for Professionals of Infection Control and Epidemiology (APIC).
Remember that each year in France, 5% of hospital patients are affected by nosocomial infections, and about 4,000 die.
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