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| On Jan 16 2006 2:20PM mdixon wrote: |
I hope someone can help. I am a physician working in Zimbabwe. We are desperately short skilled / experienced folk (I think most are in UK!)
Our large general hospital has a general ICU (ventilators)/ccu/hdu. Recently 4 patients had specimens which grew highly resistant klebsiella and pseudomonas. The nurses therefore swabbed various surfaces and grew same. they now want to empty icu and "thoughourly clean"
1 Is swabbing of surfaces useful?
2 Will removing patients and cleaning help?
3 Should we just re-inforce handwashing / gloving etc to minimise problems?
Many thanx for your help
Mark Dixon |
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