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本帖最后由 老朽 于 2011-4-9 12:30 编辑
Q: How significant is the problem of infections in health care across the world?
问:在世界范围内,医疗机构内的感染问题有多重要?
A: The problem is huge: it is estimated that there are over 1.4 million cases of HAI at any given time, although this is likely to be a gross underestimation, due to the lack of proper surveillance.
Across all settings, patients can acquire bloodstream infections, surgical site infections, urinary tract infections, chest/respiratory infections or gastrointestinal infections.
Health-care workers are often the conduit for the spread of such infections to other patients in their care. It should also be noted here that many patients may carry microbes without any obvious signs or symptoms of an infection (colonized or sub clinically-infected). This clearly reinforces the need for hand hygiene, irrespective of the type of patient being cared for.
答:问题是巨大的,据估计,任何时候都有1,400,000例医院感染存在,但由于缺乏适当的监测,可能存在总数上的低估。
在所有的医疗机构内,病人都可能获得血流感染、手术部位的感染、泌尿道插管相关感染、胸部/肺部或下呼吸道的感染。
这些感染通常通过医务人员的诊疗活动进行传播。需要注意的是,许多病人可能携带了病原菌而没有明显的感染症状或体征(定植或亚临床感染)。因此,不管给何种病人进行诊治活动,都需要加强手卫生。
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