Category Archives: nosocomial infection

Significant changes in Hospital Microbial Flora

Posted on May 2, 2012 by medzpro

Nosocomial infection is defined as infection developing in hospitalized patients, neither present nor in incubation at the time of their admission.

 hospital microbial flora infection Nosocomial Infection (NI) is the most difficult problems especially when deal with severally ill patients. More than 90% of NI caused by bacteria. Klebsiella pneumoniae, Staphylococcus aureus, Escherichia coli, Proteus spp, and Pseudomonas aeruginosa are among the most common causative agents. Recent surveys have pointed out significant changes in microbial flora in various parts of body.

  1. Changes in Microbial Flora : In early hospitalization era, hospital acquired infections were dominated by Staphylococcal infections, well controlled initially by Penicillin.

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Three Strategies for Nosocomial Infection Prevention

Posted on April 30, 2012 by medzpro

three strategies for nosocomial infection prevention Numerous prevention guidelines have been established in US and European. Nosocomial Infections prevention plays a major role in Hospital.  There are many preventive method that could be used by hospital. Some measures are the isolation policies, hospital epidemiology surveillance and administrative measures.  With right methods and measures, we can decrease morbidity and length of hospital stay rate. In the end it will affect the hospitalization cost.

Three main approaches that can be used are :

  1. Cross contamination prevention and control various sources of nosocomial pathogens. As we know, endotracheal tube, dialysis systems, respiratory equipment and catheters can be transmitted from

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