ה"טיפול" שיכול להציל מאות ישראלים בשנה

לפני מספר שבועות קראנו דו"ח שלפיו כ 4,000 ישראלים מתים מדי שנה מזיהומים אלימים (בעיקר חיידקים עמידים לאנטיביוטיקה) שהם חוטפים במהלך אישפוז בבתי החולים שלנו. ראו מה עשו הבריטים כדי לצמצם תופעה זו. מתי אצלינו? http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2139372/MRSA-cases-plummet-doctors-nurses-patients-clean-hospital-sinks.html

ערב טוב הזוי, מה הקשר בין כתבה על רחיצת ידיים ובין חיסונים? מי שאינו מכיר את "רינת", האנטי מדע והאנטי חיסונים ההיסטרי, חסיד הרפואה האלטרנטיבית וההומיאופתיה, מוזמן לעיין כאן. http://www.doctors.co.il/forum-312/pg-550#message-432157

WHO announces hand hygiene efforts --------------------------------------- The World Health Organization (WHO) today announced its annual "Save Lives: Clean Your Hands" campaign designed to reduced healthcare-associated infections through better hand hygiene, especially in developing nations. "Most health care-associated infections are preventable through good hand hygiene—health-care workers [HCWs] cleaning hands, at the right times and in the right way," the agency said in a news release. The WHO encourages leadership in promoting hand hygiene in individual countries, commitment to making patient safety a priority, and networking among nations to promote the campaign, which was started in 2009. May 5 WHO news release WHO campaign home page Meanwhile, two studies published this week highlighted successes in promoting hand hygiene in Great Britain and in Belgium. A UK campaign called "cleanyourhands," begun in 2005 to promote HCW hand washing and disinfection, was linked to an almost-tripling of the use of alcohol-based hand sanitizers and soap and water in 4 years. As reported in BMJ, investigators also found that rates of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus and Clostridium difficile infections were cut almost in half. In Belgium, researchers found compliance with hand hygiene increased after 1-month promotional campaigns that included reminders, HCW education, promotion of hand sanitizer, and patient education. As detailed in Eurosurveillance yesterday, rates after each of the four campaigns from 2005 to 2011 increased, respectively, from 49.6% to 68.6%, from 53.2% to 69.5%, from 58.0% to 69.1%, and from 62.3% to 72.9%. May 3 BMJ study May 3 Eurosurveillance report http://www.who.int/mediacentre/events/meetings/2012/clean_hands_campaign/en/index.html http://www.bmj.com/content/344/bmj.e3005 http://www.eurosurveillance.org/ViewArticle.aspx?ArticleId=20161