Up to 70 per cent of these infections could be prevented if health care workers follow recommended protocols, which include hand hygiene. It is truly dangerous to do dressing of orthopedic cases after bone surgeries they get into chronic infectious conditions and reduces the quality of life and increases morbidity and mortality. So much said about hand washing for more than 2 centuries and little happens despite public health education on hand washing.
We are aware hospital infections affect 2 million people in the US every year - 100,000 dies. Up to 70% of infections preventable if medics followed hand hygiene guide, I wonder if we look at the outpatient dressing rooms it is terrible in many hospitals or even the teaching hospitals where they keep the most inexperienced trainees to take care the matters, whatever the wonderful surgeries are done many patients get infected in Outpatient…
