2023-11-10 01:00:27
Las hospital infections They have become a serious problem that must be addressed immediately. When staying in a hospital, the greatest desire is to achieve a speedy and satisfactory recovery. Unfortunately, sometimes this is not the case because new diseases are acquired and many can be serious.
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In accordance with the initiative Hospital Without Infections, 100 patients die every minute from a hospital infection. In addition, each infected patient in health units costs about $180,000. Therefore, a total of 28.4 billion pesos is what the health system loses annually due to this problem.
What are Healthcare Associated Infections?
Las Healthcare Associated Infections (HAI) are those that affect a patient during the care process in a hospital or health center that was not present or in the incubation period at the time of admission and that may even manifest after the patient is discharged.
Furthermore, when the patient ends up infected, they also suffer economic damage, to which is added the cost of medical care for them to recover, so hospital stays are longer and another patient is deprived of receiving timely medical care.
Recently, the WHO and PAHO replaced other terms such as nosocomial infections, hospital-acquired infections or infections associated with health care, with the term Infections Associated with Health Care (HAI), indicates Teacher Juanita Jiménez, head of Nurses and representative of the Latin American Nursing Network.
In addition to the current situation, the costs are very high, resulting in economic damage to the hospital, the health system and users.
The most common hospital infections
Pneumonia Associated with Mechanical Ventilation. Urinary Tract Infections Associated with the Urinary Catheter. Bloodstream infections related to the Central Venous Catheter.
As an example, the hospital sector is the most expensive of the entire health care system, since between 5.5% and 11.5% of everything the country spends on hospitalization is wasted on treating HAIs. A very high error attention cost for the system.
Likewise, the approximate price of treatment per infected patient costs between 85 and 180 thousand pesos, which means at least a loss of between 13,400 and 28,400 million pesos annually to the system.
For all this, it is urgent to transform care measures against infections in hospitals and create an action program together with all actors, prioritizing the role of authorities and patients.
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