Posted on 09/07/2016 4:35:47 PM PDT by Tilted Irish Kilt
Fifteen years after the U.S. declared drug-resistant infections to be a grave threat, the crisis is only worsening, a Reuters investigation finds, as government agencies remain unwilling or unable to impose reporting requirements on a healthcare industry that often hides the problem.
According to their death certificates, Emma Grace Breaux died at age 3 from complications of the flu; Joshua Nahum died at age 27 from complications related to a skydiving accident; and Dan Greulich succumbed to cardiac arrhythmia at age 64 after a combined kidney and liver transplant.
In each case – and in others Reuters found – death resulted from a drug-resistant bacterial infection contracted while the patients were receiving hospital care, medical records show. Their death certificates omit any mention of the infections.
(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...
Even when recorded, tens of thousands of deaths from drug-resistant infections – as well as many more infections that sicken but don’t kill people – go uncounted because federal and state agencies are doing a poor job of tracking them. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the go-to national public health monitor, and state health departments lack the political, legal and financial wherewithal to impose rigorous surveillance.
As a result, they miss people like Natalie Silva of El Paso, Texas, who contracted a MRSA (pronounced MER-suh) infection after giving birth. She died from infection-related complications nearly a year later, at age 23.
Silva’s sisters fought a successful battle to get the hospital to cite MRSA on her death certificate. Still, her death went uncounted: The Texas health department doesn’t track deaths like hers from antibiotic-resistant infections, and neither does the CDC.
MRSA deaths not even being counted as cause of death by CDC
The "uncounted infectious disease"
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And God can heal from MRSA as well.
Thank you, Jesus......
You have to wonder if MRSA is sourced to homosexuals or illegal aliens since the government is so hot to cover it up.
But they are making LOT’S of money, so who cares?
Sometimes I think you’d be better off recuperating at home, than in the hospital.
Surgeon: “The operation was a success, but the patient died in recovery.”
These days, I try to be a happy guy who doesn’t get explosive about things, but man I hate these damn incompetent, dishonest, lazy, stupid doctors and our ridiculous scam of a health care system.
It’s easy to kill MRSA. Ozone kills MRSA. Dead. No antibiotics, no resistance, nothing. Dead as the proverbial doornail. There are myriad ways that ozone can be used safely and easily to cure a patient with MRSA.
The doctors won’t use it. “It’s not FDA approved,” they say as they let people die for lack of some stamp of approval from a bureaucrat. A pox on all of them.
At least my family is safe. Yours too, if you do a little research.
Well the CDC may not track MRSA infection deaths but they are ready to cite handguns as a national health crisis.
But who's doing the covering-up? Hospitals? Insurance companies?
I suppose any death certificate with MRSA as cause of death will inevitably spark a lawsuit.
If only we had open borders with Millions of Peasants from third world hellholes coming in to the USA it would get better, no??
The fastest way to FIX most of our Problems is 12 FEET OF ROPE!
Not only are they germ factories, but the one I was in was the least restful place I have ever been in.
I don’t think you can inject Ozone in to someone’s veins.
Ozone is great for sterilizing instruments or minor wounds but not so great on skin.
The big problem is doctors and nurses not following cleanliness protocols.
Proper procedure for health professionals in a hospital when seeing patients.
1. When entering a patient room, wash hands or use hand sanitizer and don surgical gloves.
2. When exiting room remove and dispose of surgical gloves, wash hands or use hand sanitizer.
This is a rather simple procedure but when you are in six or more patient rooms an hour by the end of your work week your hands are cracked and bleeding, using the hand sanitizer becomes painful.
So the health professionals become somewhat negligent in following the protocol because pain is a great teacher. Keep washing your hands repeatedly and they become raw and painful. Lesson learned don’t wash your hands so much.
So many will cut the washing in half. Only wash when entering a room. This is the part patients will notice the most. Unfortunately it is the part that is probably the least important because they have already carried the MRSA out of an infected room in to the hallway and spread it to everything they touch.
From the site you submitted:
"Although MRSA is still a major patient threat, a CDC study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association Internal Medicine showed that invasive (life-threatening) MRSA infections in healthcare settings are declining.
Invasive MRSA infections that began in hospitals declined 54% between 2005 and 2011, with 30,800 fewer severe MRSA infections.
In addition, the study showed 9,000 fewer deaths in hospital patients in 2011 versus 2005."
"This study (or report) complements data from the National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN) that found rates of MRSA bloodstream infections occurring in hospitalized patients fell nearly 50% from 1997 to 2007."
Could it be that current information is based on National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN), and may affect hospital funding ?
Why would doctors not list MRSA as the cause of death, instead of the original problem that brought them to the healthcare facility in the first place ?
Is there an incentive to NOT LIST MRSA as the cause of death ?
Accurate statistics require accurate data : or "GI/GO"(garbage in/ garbage out) !!
An important thing to think about is NOT having any kind of invasive procedure in a surgical suite or outpatient center. They are not help to the same sterilization standards. We get unannounced inspections several times a year in the place where I work. Outpatient surgical centers are not.
[[And God can heal from MRSA as well.
Thank you, Jesus......
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Actually you can inject it in the vein. There are a number of treatments along those lines, including where blood is taken, saturated with ozone and then replaced.
For topical purposes, ozonated olive oil can be used to treat infected wounds. It actually works amazingly well. You can buy it on Amazon. :-)
That's a good possibility as the likely motivation
One of the consequences of living in a litigious society !
With increased possible exposure to medication-resistant bacteria within the healthcare facility,
liability and legal action could motivate inaccurate death certificates.
Illegals mostly.
BTW...I didn’t mean to ignore the rest of your post. You make very valid points and I’m sure that’s a huge part of the problem.
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