Sentences with word «bacteraemia»

Whilst the government will struggle to meet the 50 % reduction of MRSA bacteraemias by March of this year, just adopting this simple culture change could reduce significantly the numbers of patients contracting a healthcare infection through this route.

This new procedure by the Royal Hampshire for the insertion of cannula or IV lines on the basis of doing it only when absolutely necessary, we believe has contributed significantly to the hospital having no MRSA bacteraemias for the last six months.

But thankfully most of these cases of toothbrushing bacteraemia don't give us endocarditis.

publish MRSA bacteraemias, Clostridium difficile, surgical site, urinary and catheter infections on a hospital basis to inform patient choice

The role of now regular surveillance, screening and monitoring processes as recorded by the Health Protection Agency has also contributed greatly to a significant reduction in key infection rates of MRSA bacteraemia, a 75 per cent reduction since 2003/04, when more patients were dying from what are largely avoidable infections.

It is a known fact that 60 % of all MRSA bacteraemias can be traced back to the use of cannula, IV lines, feeding lines and similar devices, and our own conservative estimate is that if this policy of cannula insertion now used at the Royal Hampshire was rolled across to the rest of the NHS, we could see as many as 1,700 less deaths from this type of infection.

Whilst the government initiatives of the deep - clean, bare - below - the - elbows and screening can have an impact to a degree in reducing MRSA bacteraemias, these initiatives on their own will not succeed in reducing infections to the levels we expect.

In addition to functional and self - esteem issues that accompany bad teeth, the chronic inflammation and bacteraemia (bacteria in the blood) characteristic of poor oral health increases the incidence of coronary heart disease, stroke, diabetes and respiratory disease.

Following tooth death, the root canal system will act as a bacterial super-highway creating not only local infection, but also a bacteraemia which has been linked to more serious systemic diseases.