Question

statistics on HAI occurrence and why this is problem in healthcare

Answer 1

Hospital acquired infection or HAI is the common treat to the field of health care. It is also called as nosocomial infections. It is one of the main causes of the death. Even as of now, one in 25 inpatient is getting hospital acquired infections. The Most common HAI are Catheter related urinary tract infection, Ventilator associated pneumonia, surgical site infections. Patients in the healthcare setting are also at increased risk of HAIs from exposure to organisms that are transmitted between patients and healthcare workers. Even the overuse of the antibiotics causes the problems such as emergence of antibiotic resistance is bacteria. The main concern of HAI is it causes increase in the hospital stay and people admitted with one infection gets more complicated infection from the hospital and the issue becomes more serious in patients who are immune compromised.

The most common organism causing HAI are

1. Acinetobacter

2. Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus

3. Klebsiella

4. Staphylococcus aureus

5. Tuberculosis (TB)

Hospitals are already following the infection control protocols to prevent HAI but still ineffective many times. Strict infection prevention plan has to be implemented to prevents the HAI to a certain extend.

Audio visual materials to train the hospital staffs to prevent the HAI are helpful as the staff will be more aware of the importance of infection control.

Maintain the check list for the patients as a part of infection prevention protocol is more helpful.