How to stop Hospital Infections

EMMY AWARD winning Fox11 News report on the disturbing trend of more and more patients picking up dangerous 'Superbug' infections while in the hospital. Such was the case with Flesh-eating Disease Survivor Alicia Cole. Now Dr. Alfonso Torres Cook is fighting back against infections using a common-sense plan of attack. More hospitals should follow his lead.

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• Alfonso torres Cook
• Cleanliness
• prevention
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• germs
• MRSA
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• staph
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[MizCole]

Several people have asked about Ms. Cole's prior condition.

She went to the hospital to have to 2 small fibroids removed. Healthy, no pre-existing conditions, no diabetes, etc. no prior surgeries. No history of illness.

The Dept of Public Health found the hospital to be in violation of both State & Federal laws for INFECTION CONTROL and Patient Safety. Ms. Cole later learned the hospital has been sited for Infection control issues every year from 2004-2008.

[faltura1217]

It is always a risk to be admitted to a hospital,so if it cannot be avoided,we have to always WASH UR HANDS!As a HCP,we r bound by the virtues of benevolence(doing good) and malevolence(not doing harm)& must be vigilant. Patients must be treated, managed, improved and discharged the soonest. However, I wonder what the case of Ms. Cole was? I am actually an Infection Control Nurse and I am interested to know what had happened.

[MizCole]

Ms. Cole went to the hospital to have to small fibroids removed. Healthy, no pre-existing conditions, diabese, obesity, etc. no prior surgeries. No history of illness.

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[leftforever]

My six weeks at Olive View were an absolute nightmare, how I survived I will never know. I applaud you and "Dr. Clean," this was an excellent story ... it made me cry. I think it is a CRIME that Kaiser got away with sending my Dad home with all those infections to begin with and I'm betting they never bathed him either. How could medical professionals be so complacent?

DIRTY HOSPITALS INFECTION RATES NEED TO BE MADE PUBLIC!

[MnPSunshine]

Thanks to reports like this we are finding out the truth about these DIRTY HOSPITALS! Something has to be done and patients have to come first. It's time to hold hospitals accountable for their poor standards. Good job bringing this to light.

[TopAussieNurse]

As we already carry around MRSA on our skins.As healthy people we don't suffer from MRSA infection until the skin is broken & the MRSA is introduced.It's NOT Nurse's who are to blame,as I have heard, for these infections.What Dr Clean is showing should happen at all hospitals.Even a small,rural hospital I worked at,washed their patient's as soon as they were admitted to hospital.Infection rates were a lot lower than a lot of other hospitals.

[em1270]

My grandmother got the MRSA infection from her stay at the hospital 3 months ago. The nurses and doctors rarely wore gloves or disinfected their hands upon entering her room. She is now in the hospital again for pneumonia, probably brought on my the MRSA. I went to the administrator today to complain about the nurses poor hygiene. Since then, the nurses have been giving me attitude and neglecting the proper care of my grandmother to retaliate against my telling on them.

[Yadimom82]

Wow that is great!!!

[jhambng]

My husband who had worked in the same hospital in the ER for 7 years was astonished that they wouldn't wash my hair. I finally got my Husband to wash my hair with me leaning backwards over the sink because I couldnt get my IV poles on the other side. This whole time I was in the hospital My husband stayed with me sleeping in a wooden chair that didn't recline, taking care of my NEWBORN child that wasn't allowed to leave the hospital and come back at risk of infection! All 14 days!!

[jhambng]

I developed an infection on my stomach following a routine C-section. They placed a On-Q pump (a catheter that fed pain meds to my incision.) I developed cellulitis on my stomach close to my incision. The dr discharged me at 9:00 am and gave me a prescription of antibiotics (keflex.)

[kristiankroflin]

How to stop? You have to give the bacteria very nourishing and very benign surroundings. This will weaken them, it makes them less aggressive. And so they can be fought back easier without letting them get more resistive. This has to be done periodically over and over again. And of course during this time the hospital can be used (at least partly). With fighting the bacteria back more individually it will become even more aggressive and therefore even more aggressive at the end.

[mikki1256]

I am a pracitcal nursing student and medical/surgical asepsis is the most important and basic things we learn. we go over and over the importants of even just handwashing is. i am really glad this physician is getting the message out there because nosocomial (hospital acquired) infections can be prevented by the most basic tasks. its scary to think how many people acquire infections due to people just being lazy, we are supposed to make people feel better, not get another illness.

[anennid]

i hope all hospitals do what he did