Sabtu, 19 Mei 2012

Hospital visits often becomes a death trap, which, especially for the elderly

Thanks to the infections prevalent in our hospital, patients attending a fatal conditions often receive a fatal error - and this is especially true for older people.

Acquired Infections The most common is pneumonia in a hospital. The sixth leading cause of death in the United States, pneumonia is the fourth leading cause of death among the elderly and hospitals seemed powerless in preventing the spread of sexually transmitted diseases. Just as hospitals were unable to prevent often fatal drug-resistant staph superbug MRSA transmission violently in recent years.

As reported last year in New WS of nature, an old enemy of bacteria called Clostridium difficile (C. difficile) become more deadly and its incidence has increased at an alarming rate in hospitals in North America and Europe. The main cause is antibiotics kill bacteria with this difficult responsibility c.

Another new infectious agent in the United States seems CRKP call (carbapenem-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae). CRKP early 2011 identified in hospitals in 36 countries. CRKP resistant to antibiotics and patients who get it have a high risk of death, usually within 30 days. The mortality rate has been reported CRKP between 30 and 44 percent.

Other hospital complications common in the elderly include delirium, which occurs in one third of patients hospitalized longer than 65 years and over 70 percent of older patients in the intensive care unit, pressure ulcers and malnutrition .

When a person reaches 65 years in the U.S., we take the average of nine medications each day. Add the-counter medications and the amount of drug consumed every day to improve the dozen or more. For more than 95 percent of all approved of what the side effects of drugs, new drugs increases the chances of health problems.

Unfortunately, the most likely of all persons from the conclusion that the medication for one or two diseases can be treated naturally.

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