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Hospital-acquired infections are more common than you think.

1/21/2015

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During Fall 2013, 45 year old Kim Smith died after developing necrotizing fasciitis (flesh-eating disease) which resulted from an infection contracted during a routine surgery at a Canadian hospital. Although this particular case has made headlines, a large portion are not reported. Many provinces in Canada do not have the regulations in place which require hospitals to report these life threatening bugs, leaving Canadians in the dark. Although there is a debate about whether reporting these instances can improve healthcare, it is clear that having documented procedures for disinfection and sterilization can have a large impact on minimizing the amount of surgical infections in our hospitals.

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