Invasive procedures, operations, plastic surgery, transplant surgery, hip or knee replacement, open heart surgery, bypass and minor surgical procedures will come to a grinding halt. This is the year we learn that the very technology we’ve created to help us live more comfortable and, yes, often healthier lives will turn around and bite us-hard.

CA-MRSA colonised in your skin will enter your body resulting in bacteremia and death. It's better to know how and when you may get infected, specially when you are in hospitals............

  • Introduction
  • Procedures
  • Catheters
  • Cannula
  • Prevention

Procedures

All invasive procedures, operations, plastic surgery, transplant surgery, hip or knee replacement, open heart surgery, bypass and minor surgical procedures will come to a grinding halt. This is the year we learn that the very technology we’ve created to help us live more comfortable and, yes, often healthier lives will turn around and bite us-hard

In modern medical practice, up to 80% of hospitalised patients undergo simple surgical techniques at some point during their admission. There is now considerable interest in changing the technique due to problems with antibiotic resistant bacterial infection spreading in our hospitals.

Results of various studies organised to identify causes for this spread show urinary catheters, cannulae, CVP lines, ET Tubes and even simple phlebotomy are associated. Poor hand washing technique and bacterial resistance to antiseptic skin wash are major contributors.....

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Catheters

Common catheters used are plastic tubes inserted via veins, arteries, naso-gastric and urinary. Long tubes inserted via blood vessels in the arm. The procedure was developed by Seldinger in 1954, and has never changed despite its association with severe septicemia. These catheters are also used in investigations, performing intra cardiac surgeries, monitoring patients, and babies to administering total parenteral nutrition (TPN).

The present method is usually performed under pressure in an emergency, and the equipment used is very expensive. Catheters have been one of the main contributors in developing hospital acquired infections like MRSA.

Bacteria have a basic survival strategy: to colonize surfaces and grow as bio-film communities embedded in a gel-like polysaccharide matrix. The catheterized urinary tract provides ideal conditions for the development of enormous populations. Many bacterial species colonize indwelling catheters.

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Cannula

Cannulation is one of the most common surgical procedures practised in medicine. The procedure can be a daunting experience to doctors and traumatic for patients. 

The device is used to introduce a small tube into the blood vessel. Moving cannula forward after puncturing a blood vessel is operator controlled often results in failure.

Our cannula offers the user four methods to introduce cannula, thus helping doctors to cannulate with confidence and offer protection from needle stick injury

We passionately believe in reduction the number of attempts & needle stick injury to stop spreading hospital acquired infections. The number of people getting infected due to practical procedures performed in hospitals and reducing contaminated hospital waste. Blaming and shaming health care providers, prosecuting administrators will not help us reduce this threat.

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Prevention

Best strategy to reduce spreading this antibiotic resistance bacteria is to stop introducing them into patients. Staff working in the hospitals must religiously wash their hands after they touch patients, any inanimate objects like door knobs, bed, tables, taps and even pens.

Take meticulous care to wash the skin were you plan to perform minor surgical procedures. Use soap and water to wash hands for 30 seconds, then were sterile gloves and make sure you DO NOT touch any surface (skin of patients hand, bed clots, contaminated plastic devices or the sterilized area). Biocides must be left on skin for 2 minutes before injecting a needle through the skin though "Recommende is seldom practiced"

"Do No Harm", introducing infection to patients that can kill is un-ethical and must be stopped. Its not hand washing alone which matters but you need to watch what happens after wearing the sterile gloves.....

From a young age, hand washing has been associated with preventing the spread of infection and illness. While this is almost always true, hand washing has also been linked to a few health problems.

"To Wash or Not To Wash" This is a worrying development

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