“IN ospdale are safe”. Are convinced, with good reason, to those who, by patients, set foot in a hospital. But this sense of security is founded up to a certain point. Because if walking around the city and in public places we are exposed to a myriad of infections (coronavirus docet), there are many others, aggressive (and potentially lethal), that live in the hospital. Without alarmism, it is particularly from surgical procedures that come the threats more concrete.
From time to time, the scientific community questions on hospital infections , on the increasing numbers and on the measures needed to keep them at bay. It is not a coincidence that, in addition to purely economic reasons to limit health expenditure, tends more and more to reduce hospital stays and to encourage the medicine of the territorial and the Day surgery. From the series: “Before you exit the lane, the better it is”. Net of easy-beats, the framework and the projections are dramatic.
In Italy, every year about 500 thousand patients (5-8% of hospitalized) contract infections that now kill most of road accidents: between 4500 and 7000 died the first against the 3500 seconds. As always, run a greater danger to peck a bacteria-killer are the subjects belonging to the poorest and most fragile. And’ this is the theme of the cover of the next issue of Health, on newsstands with the republic of tomorrow, march 3.
in The next issue of Health we will also talk about the use of artificial intelligence for diagnosis, therapy to walk again after a spinal cord injury
And of the therapeutic powers of the water
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