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Mon, 29-Jan-07 17:28:30
Quote:REUVEN (Previously Posted Dec. 04, 1006)One of the most common illnesses found in and around hospitals and nursing facilities at one time is something called MRSA. Over the last decade or so, MRSA has been seen in the public setting and no longer confined to hospitals.... What is MRSA? The organism Staphylococcus aureus is found on many individuals skin and seems to cause no major problems. However if it gets inside the body, for instance under the skin or into the lungs, it can cause important infections such as boils or pneumonia. Individuals who carry this organism are usually totally healthy, have no problems whatever and are considered simply to be carriers of the organism. The term MRSA or methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus is used to describe those examples of this organism that are resistant to commonly used antibiotics. Methicillin was an antibiotic used many years ago to treat patients with Staphylococcus aureus infections. It is now no longer used except as a means of identifying this particular type of antibiotic resistance. Individuals can become carriers of MRSA in the same way that they can become a carrier of ordinary Staphylococcus aureus which is by physical contact with the organism. If the organism is on the skin then it can be passed around by physical contact. If the organism is in the nose or is associated with the lungs rather than the skin then it may be passed around by droplet spread from the mouth and nose. We can find out if and where Staphylococcus aureus is located on a patient by taking various samples, sending them to the laboratory and growing the organism. Tests done on any Staphylococcus aureus grown from such specimens can then decide how sensitive the organisms is to antibiotics and if it is a methicillin resistant (MRSA) organism. These test usually take 2-3 days.
Quote:REUVEN (Previously Posted):She will be out of work for at least 6-8 weeks. During the first 10 days ( I had first misunderstood this to be 6 weeks) of her release, she must be at the hospital for Intravenous Infusion of Vancomyacin. She is there at 9am and 9PM...This is just the beginning.... As a result of this illness, she is out of work for 6-8 weeks...We do wound care, meaning, cleaning and so forth, of the open/surgery sites, packing them and so on. This is a responsibility given to us but neither my wife nor I feel 100% about it in the sense that, we've never had to do anything like this before and we're not 100% sure we're doing it absolutely correct. If we do not, this will never stop happening....
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