Interesting article
Ran across another interesting article in the Boston Globe. Five staph infections possibly (three quite certainly) connected to a surgeons colonized staph. One death, surgeon loses privileges and closes his practice, some background information. Apparently, there are 500,000 post op wound infections in the US every year and "tens of thousands of deaths".
The link: http://www.boston.com/yourlife/healt...th_underscores
Wow. We deal with this stuff in detail and up-close-and-personal but when you hear the national statistics its amazing.
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STAFF INFECTION
Started by NawlinsGirl, Nov 12 2005 09:24 PM
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Posted 20 November 2005 - 06:12 PM
NawlinsGirl:
I tried to find the article and couldn't get to it. What do you mean by surgeons colonizing staff infections? Do you mean that they had an infection themselves that they didn't treat? Or did they not take the proper precautions?
I tried to find the article and couldn't get to it. What do you mean by surgeons colonizing staff infections? Do you mean that they had an infection themselves that they didn't treat? Or did they not take the proper precautions?
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