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Health See other Health Articles Title: Antibiotic resistance threatening post-surgery recovery: survey Yahoo... In the United States, up to half of infections after surgery are caused by organisms resistant to standard antibiotics, researchers found . View photo In the United States, up to half of infections after surgery are caused by organisms resistant to standard antibiotics, researchers found (AFP Photo/Brendan Smialowski) Paris (AFP) - Spreading antibiotic resistance could have disastrous consequences for patients undergoing surgery or chemotherapy, a study said. In the United States, up to half of infections after surgery and over a quarter of infections after chemotherapy are caused by organisms resistant to standard antibiotics, researchers found. A 30-percent reduction in the efficacy of preventive antibiotics given to patients undergoing these procedures could result in 120,000 infections and 6,300 infection-related deaths each year in the United States alone, they predicted. "This is the first study to estimate the impact of antibiotic resistance on broader medical care in the United States," Ramanan Laxminarayan, director of the Center for Disease Dynamics, Economics & Policy in Washington, said in a statement. "A lot of common surgical procedures and cancer chemotherapy will be virtually impossible if antibiotic resistance is not tackled urgently." Antibiotics are routinely given as a precautionary measure to patients undergoing surgery and cancer treatment, to prevent infection. At the same time, however, bacterial resistance to commonly prescribed antibiotics is increasing at an alarming pace. The study, published in medical journal The Lancet Infectious Diseases, is the first to examine the extent of rising resistance to preventive antibiotics. A team led by Laxminarayan reviewed data from clinical trials conducted between 1968 and 2011. They found that 39 percent of infections after caesarean sections, and 50–90 percent of infections after rectal prostate biopsies, were caused by organisms resistant to common antibiotics. Just over a quarter of infections after blood cancer chemotherapy were resistant. In a comment also carried by The Lancet, Joshua Wolf of the Saint Jude Children’s Research Hospital in Memphis said the study "describes a future in which patients who need surgery or chemotherapy can no longer be protected from life-threatening infections by antibiotic" treatment. "All clinicians have a responsibility to prevent this situation from becoming our patients' reality." Poster Comment: UV LIGHT AND 10. 25% BLEACH PEOPLE!! -1 TheReviewer-ClintonTownship...One factor in hospital-acquired infection that is never mentioned in typical articles is understaffing nurses. When nurses have more than 4 med-surg patients, the infection rate increases. In many states without a Patient Safety Act, RNs typically have 10-12 patients, or up to three times more patients than is safe for the patients. Oh - and there is no "shortage of nurses". Don't believe that propaganda from the for-profit hospital systems - they use that as a "reason" to bring in cheaper foreign nurses, to use LPNs and aides where RNs are more appropriate, and to understaff. What there IS, is a shortage of RNs willing to work in the unbelievably horrid circumstances that exist in most hospitals Cecil... Achilles 2... Now days, no one should have ANY surgery unless it's absolutely necessary... because you ARE going to get an infection as a result, and frankly, i blame the stupid medical industry for this primarily. BTW, this includes all those plastic, elective surgeries, don't do it if it isn't really necessary. for the relatively low wages (which have been stagnant, like all wages, for about 15 years). No, these units understaffing nurses, with a nurse/patient ratio of 1/12, are doing this for one reason and one reason only: profit. 4 After I had surgery, I ended back into the hospital with hemolytic anemia that had developed due to antibiotics, I then needed blood transfusions because of blood loss, I was very close to death.2 Post Comment Private Reply Ignore Thread Top • Page Up • Full Thread • Page Down • Bottom/Latest
#1. To: Tatarewicz (#0)
I recently read that patients who loaded with VitD, up to 10,000IU/day for a week prior to surgery, had much better outcomes and fewer infections than patients who did not ~ Bottomline Health magazine.
“The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out... without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable.” ~ H. L. Mencken
Journalism missing in action: Why is this trend of growing resistance to antibiotics happening? Isn't it ptly because aliens are bringing strains of desease hear the are treatment-proof.
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