Medica
2008
We visited Medica 2008 to
educate companies about Antibiotic resistant bacterial infection and
their association with disposable plastic device. We have encouraged
them to start thinking about bringing in changes to help us doctors and
nurses to continue practicing practical procedures with ease.
We produced a flyer "Do No Harm"
and have distributed them personally to cannula, catheter, end tracheal
tube, surgical scrub and biocide manufacturers from all over the world.
Some were aware of the existing problem but most were ignorent. We have done our best to educate them
and sincerely hope the news will be passed on to their seniors at home.
We personally thank companies
for their support and encouragement.
Aside from ad campaigns urging people to think twice before taking
antibiotics, there is little the medical community has been able to do
to prevent the steady march forward of superbugs.
Infectious disease experts warn that new drugs are urgently needed to
treat six drug-resistant bacteria that cause most hospital infections
and increasingly escape the effects of antibiotics.
Enterococcus faecium, Staphylococcus aureus,
Klebsiella species, Acinetobacter baumannii, Pseudomonas
aeruginosa, and Enterobacter species—are among the biggest
threats infectious diseases physicians face today
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Contents
We Are At War With
Infection
Present economic conditions will make politicians
more concerned about financial stability. "History repeats", we are
identifying similarities between "The Great Depression of 1930s" and the
present situation "The Credit Crunch of 2008".
Unemployment, homelessness, lack of good
nutrition's will reduce body defence (immunity) that increase viral
infections. Once you are infected with a virus, you are likely to
encounter secondary bacterial infections like Staphylococcus aureus.
Strict hand-washing policies had helped reduce the
number of hospital-acquired MRSA cases to a certain extent, but
infection still occur. An outbreak of the new community-acquired
version, combined with the hospital variety, may be catastrophic.
The bugs are usually transmitted through contact with an open wound, and
can be passed from person to person or due to contact with contaminated
surfaces.
Are viruses (Bacteriophage) the answer to fight this "Super Bacteria"?
Hindu saints knew
about this and have been using the water from Ganges to purify
themselves. Now it looks as is the drug companies have started taking a
closer look at this naturally available water from Ganges.
ATEL Ventures Invests $1.8 Million of Financing in GangaGen,
Inc.
Tabloid news papers, hospital administrators and
politicians claim :
We see these headlines with some sadness because most are
not going to make any difference to the threat we are talking about. "Ignorance
is Bliss", the politicians are ignoring plea from microbiologist and are
helping to bring in changes that matter.
In UK the politicians are
only keen to prove the MRSA infection in their NHS hospitals have
reduced. Unfortunately this is unlikely to reduce infection spreading in
the community by introducing universal screening. This makes a mockery
of medical ethics because "It is not fair to test a healthy adult and
let them know they are MRSA positive and offer no treatment?".
We agree with Dr. Marc Siegel, an associate
professor of medicine at New York University School of Medicine, opinion
that basic cleanliness can do more to remove the threat of hospital
infections than these new technologies. The real issue is that doctors
don't change their coats, change their gloves enough and believe a new
antibiotic will be soon available to treat this infection.
This technology is very promising, but it gets
us away from the real issue, which is that we have a problem with
cleanliness and sterility in hospitals.
Microbiologist in USA are claiming its becoming
hard to differentiate Hospital MRSA from the CA-MRSA. These bacteria
multiply every 20 minutes, they rapidly develop resistant strains and
are educating other bacteria and transferring the technology. Every
country in the world has reported new strains, some true and most are
false.
We have received emails from people living in Australia,
New-Zealand and Canada asking us if we can find out about HA-MRSA in
their hospitals. People who developed post-operative infection were
treated with vancomycine for 3 weeks and told they had Staphylococcus
infection and discharged home. On return they were tested for MRSA and
when found positive they were not re-admitted in the hospital. These patients
were made to suffer in silence at home and as doctors we feel it is un
ethical and barbaric.
Is this fair to say "We can reduce admitting MRSA
positive patients in hospitals and claim to be winning war with
superbug" ? if you think its OK, think again because it may be you
the next time.
As doctors we were educated to follow medical ethics, so
performing a "Test" only if treatment is available and its is unethical
to identify but not treat. Based on this ethical issue, we do not
perform routine HIV test of people unless and until it is necessary to
find out why the treatment of certain infections is not working. How is
that the doctors and all their governing body not talking about this
issue but going with the flow of politicians?
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Universal screening for MRSA
At hospital admission and nosocomial
infection in surgical patients made no difference to the rate of
hospital acquired MRSA infection in the study population.
Its hard to blame the doctors in isolation because
their work is controlled by healthcare providers, health authorities and
health insurance companies. It is not in the interest of our community
to perform universal screening as this has been shown not to reduce
infection rate in the hospital.
INTERESTING NEWS & ARTICLES
U.S. and German
researchers, have found that MRSA secretes a peptide formed by amino acids - which causes immune cells,
or neutrophils, to burst, eliminating your body's main defence against
infection. The MRSA peptide compounds cause inflammation, drawing the
immune cells to the infection site, at which time they destroy the
immune cells. It takes only five minutes of exposure for the immune
cells to be damaged and about an hour for their destruction.
Nature
Medicine.
Antibiotic regimens recommended for patients may differ across
regions of the world because different areas have begun to show
resistance to particular:
Helicobacter pylori and Peptic
Ulcer
Many
people are aware of the ancient Mayan calendar which has an
interesting date December 21, 2012 which is their end date of time
as we know it. If you want some interesting information on the
science of the Mayan Calendar and what it means and what you can do
about it;
Shift in Consciousness - what to do!
24.4% of Health Care Workers caring for
patients colonized or infected with MRSA and/or VRE, acquired the
organism on their gloves, gown, or both;
The Society for Healthcare
Epidemiology of America
" We are heading towards a
"pre-antibiotic era" with no effective treatment for some
infections". The Society claims that not enough is being done to develop
new antibiotics and other ways to tackle infection. Instead, too much
policy is focused on controlling disease and reducing the number of
antibiotics taken, a report released by the Society warns.
The Royal Society of Medicine
In just a few years and now represent more than 10% of total cases, an
analysis concludes.
Community-acquired MRSA have doubled
A new report in the journal "Paediatrics" says many
children may be carrying the staph infection "MRSA" in their nasal
passages -and not even know it.
Your child may be carrying the drug resistant super
bug *right now.*
After years of campaign and warning politicians, one hospital in UK has at last proved MRSA is directly associated
with IV Cannula.
MRSA cut by stopping injections (IV Cannula)
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First UK Guidelines to
Doctors (May 2008)
Diagnosis and management of community
associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus
(CA-MRSA) infections.
Hospitals with high bed occupancy rates, high
levels of temporary staff or cleanliness. Increasing spend on cleaning
by 10% is estimated to reduce MRSA rates by less than 1%.
Low cleanliness score, NO longer have significantly
higher MRSA infections
Widely used antibacterial soaps contribute to the
development of antibiotic resistant bacteria. The antibacterial agents
produce a genetic change in bacteria which enables them to become more
drug-resistant (Nature 394:531-532, 199).
Hospital organisation, specialty mix
& MRSA, Dec 2007
Antiseptics, detergents manufacturers have
started advertising their product kills all germs including MRSA &
virus. We find this repulsive. Ordinary soap and water is adequate for
most household cleaning.
Local News
World News
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Advances
Treatment
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Headline News
What does CA-MRSA look like?
Digital photographs of skin infections and wounds caused by
community-associated methicillin resistant Staphylococcus
aureus (MRSA/Staph).
We are now ready to and proud to
present our innovation to help us fight and reduce spreading MRSA in hospitals: "The First
Safe Cannula in the World"
Our mission is to reduce
introduction of infection due to multiple punctures, trauma to patients,
stress to staff, reduce needle stick injuries.
We passionately believe it is
mandatory not to give these bacteria an opportunity to enter our body
and not to pollute our environment with contaminated hospital waste.
