Stethoscopes doctors are dirtier than their hands, as the researchers found. These diagnostic tools are able to carry Staphylococcus aureus and other life-threatening infection of patients.
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Health of the people who are in hospitals, already undermined their existing diseases, so that a new disease can be for someone fatal. Especially since most of the patients immune system is weakened. In this regard, the medical personnel required to comply with strict hygiene rules, which, alas, is not always carried out.
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For example, each doctor is available
stethoscope after listening to it using 71 patient becomes much more "dirty" in terms of the number of bacteria than the doctor's hands. The more that these same hands doctors still regularly cleaned, but the rub
stethoscopes they are not very difficult. That is the conclusion reached by experts led by Dr. Didier Pete, WHO staff, who works in the hospital at the University of Geneva.
Dr. Pete and his colleagues conducted an experiment in which 71 patients were examined by a doctor using sterile gloves and a stethoscope. After each inspection work surface stethoscope and doctor's hands were tested for the presence of bacteria. The diaphragm of the stethoscope, which is pressed against the patient's skin, were infected much stronger than the hands of the doctor. Among the bacteria found there were microbes Staphylococcus aureus - Deadly for some patients whose immune system is greatly weakened.
"Given the fact that the doctor uses a stethoscope throughout the day and night, constantly bringing it to the skin of different patients, it is not surprising that after each such examination on the surface of the device are found thousands of bacteria, - says Dr. Pete. - In order to monitor the spread of infections Stethoscope be subjected antiseptic treatment after each patient contact! " (READ MORE)
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