Anesthesiologist - a source of infection

Anesthesiologists often are carriers of the bacteria in the sterile operating room. These doctors should wash their hands better, according to researchers.

Each of us is familiar picture - a surgeon lathers hands before surgery. He does this a few times, then wiping the skin and destroying all possible germs, because after a few minutes he will "open" the human body. And yet, despite such increased precautions, patients continue to be infected bacterial infections   during operations. Who puts them?

Medical Center Dartmouth-Hitchcock, located in the US city of Lebanon, scroll to the group of researchers who studied 164 operation using anesthesia. At 11, 5% bacterial infection It was delivered to the patient through a vein by a special tube.

Approximately half of the cases of infection, researchers found microbes on the hands of specialists providing anesthesia - that is, anesthesiologists   and their nurses. It is sad, but overall, bacterial infection He drifts into the operating room in 90% of cases.

The study's authors emphasize that the findings suggest a lack of attention anesthesiologists to the issues of asepsis. "Although we all know that washing hands before surgery is a definitive and indispensable condition for the work of medical personnel, the performance of this procedure in a number of hospitals is very bad, - says professor of anesthesiology at Columbia University, editor in chief of Anesthesia & Analgesia Steven Shafer. - And management of hospitals that do not follow these procedures, there can be no excuses. It's time to come up with additional measures to protect patients from the microbes that we regularly drifts into their operational ".

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