Hospital infections cause many dangerous complications

The level of toxicity, causing complications and deaths of hospital infections is higher than that of community infections, mainly due to the weak resistance of patients and the risk of exposure to many types of multidrug-resistant bacteria found only in hospital.

Ms. Tam (District 3, HCMC) has just returned home after nearly a month of hospitalization for surgery to cut colon cancer.'Operators like me were only hospitalized for a week and then returned. But the doctor diagnosed the mouth that connected the leaky colon, hospitalized infection, so it had to lie here for months. ' This is one of the patients with hospital infections . Accordingly, hospital infection is the infection of patients infected within 48-72 hours after admission.

'All patients hospitalized face the risk of hospital infections, from pneumonia, urinary tract infections, septicemia, abdominal infections . Especially, for patients who undergo it surgery as surgery, although under any condition, 90% of the surgical sutures have the presence of germs. Many patients have long-term psychological pain to enter the hospital, causing delayed surgery, repeated surgery leading to infection, severe cases can cause septic shock. In the most advanced countries in the world such as the US, despite the right intervention, good use of drugs, very high mortality rates, up to 35% ' , Professor, Dr. Le Quang Nghia, Chairman of the Society for Surgery digestive techniques said.

Hospital infections cause overload, reduce hospital quality and prestige, become a burden of medical care.

The World Health Organization estimates that the rate of hospital infections in European countries is about 5%, while this figure in low-income and middle-income countries is 5.7% -19.1%. . This is one of the leading causes threatening the safety of patients, increasing complications, treatment days, hospitalization costs, mortality rates. Hospital infections also overload, reduce hospital quality and prestige and become a burden of medical care. The reason is that there is not enough resources for infection control, infrastructure is still underdeveloped, hospitals are overloaded, assessment of the dangers of hospital infections is not adequate.

According to health experts, the simplest and least expensive method to prevent hospital infections is to clean the hands before and after each contact with the patient, before performing sterile procedures, after Contact with contaminated medical equipment. Besides, it is also necessary to strictly implement sterile techniques with surgical and endoscopic instruments .

Antibiotics are also effective against hospital infections for external and internal infections. Especially with many types of surgery at high risk, if using the right antibiotics, it will have a good effect against hospital infections. However, the abuse of drugs is causing the antibiotic resistance of bacteria to increase, and there are many types of multi-drug resistant bacteria, making it difficult for treatment. Whenever resistance to an antibiotic, bacteria become more dangerous."Research and production of new antibiotics can last up to several decades, while the process of antibiotic resistance of bacteria takes place very quickly. Therefore, there are not many pharmaceutical companies investing in the market. This school, leading to scarcity of antibiotic sources , " Professor Nghia added.