According to NSW Health infections data, on average of 45 patients a month acquire a preventable staphlycoccus aurus bloodstream infection in NSW hospitals and a quarter of them will not survive the infection.
Infectious diseases expert Professor Peter Collignon said most bloodstream infections could be prevented if health care workers adhered to strict hand-hygiene protocols. Findings by the Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care showed many Doctors were still not washing their hands between patients. “It is the hands of staff that move bugs from patient ‘a’ to patient ‘b’,” Professor Collignon said.
Each month 10-15 patients die as a result of infections acquired within the health system.
In one of many cases one patient contracted a superbug-MRSA after an ankle operation, it has been there for 2 years, no antibiotic can remove it…..only 50% of Doctors follow hand-hygiene protocol.
Professor Collignon if you get staphyyloccus aurus blodstream infections there is a 25% chance you wont’t be alive in 30 days, and most of these deaths are preventable. He continues on to say that the spread is through the hands, doctors being even worse than nurses assuming it maybe a delusion that we are now so sophisticated and modern we don’t need to be as careful as 40 years ago. Statistically…….4% of every hip replacment, 5% of every knee replacement, and upto 10% of every heart bypass end up with surgical site infections.
Professor Collignon stated that eight years ago the United Kingdom’s National Health Service made public information about hospital acquired infections for all to see-and it worked, MRSA bloodstream infections dropped 30%.
In Australia hospital performance can bee seen on MY HOSPITALS WEBSITE.