How can it be prevented
The media often focus on clean hospitals and clean hands as a key to combating MRSA. Others believe that this will only cut cases by 30% and that a diverse strategy is vital and will include:
- Clean Wards - especially surfaces and keyboards.
- Staff Screening - are they super carriers?
- Patient Screening - so that they can be decolonised and to avoid self infection.
- Hospital Equipment - because it can take the infection deep into a wound.
- Air Hygiene - to help prevent nasal colonisation
- Hand Hygiene - to prevent transport from patient to patient via staff hands
- Antibiotic Restraint - because resistance grows from over prescription
- The Food Chain - is resistance also provoked by over use in animals?
- Patient Isolation - this helps lessen the potential risk of airborne infection
- Lifestyle Choices - needle injected drugs and multiple sexual partners help spread chronic illnesses that emerge slowly.
