Reducing Hospital Infections

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Do not try to do it by yourself. Hey have you ever had to deal with an infection in the hospital. We agree. She's been hurt since the 80s and we had so many hospital stays and she's had so many infections over the years. Everything staff bursa name. She's had it recently learned of the committee to reduce infection. This grid grid or ID the committee to reduce infection deaths. The chairman is Dr. Betsy McCoy and she is here with us today to talk about some the things that we as caregivers can do to protect ourselves and our loved one. When we have to go in for hospital stays, or long-term care stakes or inpatient rehab or all the other things that go on and I know I know Gracie's left face this that I have learned so much from their website in the in the things that they have available to that's free that you want take a look at it right now. So were very glad to be able to have Dr. McCoy here should brings an amazing resume of patient Advocate healthcare policy expert fumbled to the governor of New York. Dr. McCoy, thank you so much for joining us today.

I'm happy to join you hear what all really vital information right to it with astounding fact number one predictor of who contract.

It's not their age not be diagnosed brought them in the middle to begin with. No number one predictor which patient contract hospital infection is what room or bent plate. If the patient is assigned to a room or placed in the bed the previous occupant even q. week three week a month before had an infection. The risk way way up when I pay way up over five times the great.

According to the Columbia school of nursing.

583% and then applied for a whole range of competence like you mentioned before methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus vancomycin-resistant enterococcus C. diff the most numerous hospital infection. He noted Baxter a lot of different infection. The risk is directly tied to who occupied the bed for the world before the patient is now being placed there gone into situations like that with Gracie to the best of my ability so that I didn't know all the things you got a hold program to follow and so forth. Know a lot of those things that I would personally go into the rooms before she got there she still in surgery. She still in recovery and I would like that would bring my own Lysol wipes and I would get done everything what what brand weight quite back.

Oh I did it in and and yet you know it's still not enough is there is more we can do it not enough, but very important step.

In fact, in our 15th step click I hope everyone will walk on the website and download 15 steps you can take to reduce your risk of a hospital infection.

One of them said you're going to visit a loved one in the hospital. Forget the candidate forget the flowers bring a canister of bleach wipes in a paraquat wiping the therapist is right around the patient that could be saving their life. You did the right thing, but astounding that that is the number one predictor one benefit. Those are inadequately cleaned, how you with their cleaned and think what I'm going in with the bleach wipes in the glove. We've already got that right and make them fear, but hospitals are not adequately cleaned.

In fact, this study will really down to a two Dr. Dr. Michael Perry and Dr. Philip Carlin studied 1100 hospital room all the way from Washington DC to Boston. They went to the hospital for DC Trenton in New York City, Stamford, Connecticut, New Haven, Connecticut, Providence, Rhode Island all the way up the Boston some very prestigious and they examined how poorly or how well the hospital room were being cleaned. When one patient is discharged before the next patient is admitted to that room and they found that over the surfaces in the room were left uncut not go by the cleaners of which is that because I just had a 10 week stay with reaching the hospital earlier this year and I watched the staff coming in and out and you know I think there was a sincerity, but there's not a thoroughness in your little things like the phone if you drop the TV remote onto the floor. Little things like that that I that I have watched that one something drop them to be contaminated, but many have for worker fame unaware of that. Well, we got the study of 1100 room. Over half the therapist that are supposed to be clean, are not claimed and in fact when I looked at the data on what therapist before claim.

The conclusion I read if you have to eat your life in a hospital room. The safest place to put your sandwiches on the toilet seat they never overlook one object that always kept clean but they often met the call button. They often missed the TV monitor they often missed the bed rail and the surfaces that doctors and nurses and patients can't benefit cuts that contaminated surface and three contaminated witnesses up close and personal.

On more times that I want to remind myself love and grace.

He certainly hasn't. She has struggled with this talk a little bit about because this is not just for hospitals. This is also for long-term care facilities and other types of persuasive talking a bit about that to well over the year. One of the things that we did that we we monitor survey that all the new everything coming out in the medical journal that we translated into item. People can understand and and so for example if you click on our website we have 15 steps that you can take to reduce your risk of getting an infection in the hospital. I'm good to go through all 15 but I'd like to go through some of them with you to give an idea of how how informative and interesting and doable.

They are pleased looked at them and they're not complex things.

So please do yes please go through these okay so if you look at me 15th step. Some of them take before you get to the hospital for me to while you're in the hospital rescue afterwards. But the step based on the latest best medical research which we take and translate into actionable item that any patient and family can follow.

So for example number one if you're going to the hospital. Don't shape saving create Nick in the skin for which bacteria can enter saving is like putting out a welcome mat for bacteria that don't figure your faith, your legs, the ready world.

You know this is that these would remember that is mixed or weeks so don't don't shape. That's a great mixer wick settle with that that infection in the bacteria right into you, so mix or weeks ago say that's a great one, but another one hot little will never tell you because it would be an admission of how unclean the hospitals are but the most prevalent infection is something called click stadium. If you feel and people are often told that antibiotic cause C. diff no you don't get C. diff and Q swallow the C. diff for which invisibly contaminates virtually every surface in the hospital. It contaminates the surfaces because the surfaces are cleaned effectively, so PDF is on the bed rail on the call button, over the bed table and here's what you need to do before you cut any of your food before you pick up a sandwich or even Apple.

You must clean your hands off so that you don't have any of those invisible C. diff forth on your hand. Otherwise, when you pick up that food and eat it. You're going to be swallowing those C. diff forth along with your food and 1/5 C. diff get for your gastrointestinal causes rampant deadly I mean deadly diarrhea. The stories are: you can you can die from so many things related C. diff but the key is not to allow that board to get in your body the way it gets in your body is through your mouth you give it yourself. When your hands are clean so it's very noticeable that hospitals don't count patient please clean your hands before you eat, but in fact it's essential to wipe your hands thoroughly before you touch any food and avoid putting your utensils on any surface, except replace those caregivers our loved ones can always process these things is not a position to do that until it falls on the yes it falls on us to do that and so and then make sure hands are clean as well, and I would of you don't of loved it. A lot of time with Gracie over these 36 years in the hospital yet in it is frightening how accurate this stuff is in how I will say slovenly but it was a better word for Dr. McCoy and quickly not there. That's a much better when study Joe you can you can probably clean adequately went to work with staff it many many hospital for I'll give you a really big one right medical college in Chicago. They care the staff.

They are working with the environmental services people between or showing them the surfaces they were overlooking and how to clean better and they were able to reduce the spread of BRE vancomycin-resistant enterococcus which is a nasty bug they were able to resist the spread of that fund by 66% just by working with the cleaning staff and bringing them better people wanted to do the right job, but they don't always have the right training to do it. If the cleaning can be improved. Robert Orenstein out at the Mayo Clinic. He reduced C. diff the term. I just talked about 86% by why think that once a day with your wife. Imagine that.

Why is every hospital doing that indeed the documents McCoy she is go to our website hospital infection.or hospital infection.org look at these 15 steps download them to memorize them, incorporate them into your life, you will save you and your loved one, a world of hurt.voice like very much with us today Spiros… Hope for the caregiver. Have you ever struggled to trust God when lousy things happen to you.

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