Re: Patients at risk from 'dirty surgical instruments'

[Guest guest]

Hmmm, I'll try very hard not to have to go to the hospital when I'm in Holland

next year <g>

Carol

Patients at risk from 'dirty surgical

instruments'

I have a Dutch friend and I sometimes browse the Dutch news sites and found

this tidbit...............

Patients at risk from 'dirty surgical instruments'

The instruments that surgeons use in operations are often inadequately cleaned

or worn out, placing patients at unnecessary risk of infections or other

complications, new research indicates. Hospital insurer Medirisk also said that

equipment used in investigative surgery are often difficult to clean. Blood and

body tissue from other patients can remain stuck on the equipment. It is

suggested that 0.3 percent of patients are at risk of infection and a possible

solution is using expensive, but disposable equipment.

http://www.expatica.com/source/site_article.asp?subchannel_id=1 & story_id=7608

(Amazing huh lol. Well at least they are admitting it.)

[Guest guest]

Holland isn't alone in this, just in this instance. Many many cases abound in

the U.S. from nurses who kill their own patients to dentists and surgeons who

don't bother to sterilize equipent. Unfortunately, many many other countries

fail at cleaning their instruments as well. I think I'd rather risk death than

attend a hospital south of MY border, for the horror stories abound (and from

people who live there, were born there, etc).

In some ways and places, we are still in the dark ages and everyday, we are

reminded that we don't know everything, can't cure everything, can't " fix " it

all. I could never work in the health field. I'd end up committing suicide.

Alley

[Guest guest]

I am in agreement about the high ability of contact with all sorts of

diseases thru hospitals... That is about the only way i figure i must have come

in

contact with hepatitis C .. either surgery.. giving birth.. i had infections

with my first child.. and 20 years later.. am diagnosed with Hep C with

cirrhosis of the liver... saying have probably had hep C for 20 years becuz of

the

stage i am in without drinking.. doc said that if i had been a drinker .. would

probably be dead by now...

So yes.. i think surgeries are not clean or werent.. but may still not be..

only takes once for a hosp not to do the proper cleaning.. .. i have a friend

that works in that area of a hosp and turn over is high there.. there could be

lots of mistakes or shortcuts taken ..

scary,

Dawn

[Guest guest]

I've always been a firm believer that a hospital is the worse place for a sick

person to be.

But seriously, it was just a year or two ago when it was discovered that

improperly cleaned colonoscopy (sp?) equipment was spreading HCV...and Hep C was

well known then.

Re: Patients at risk from 'dirty surgical

instruments'

I am in agreement about the high ability of contact with all sorts of

diseases thru hospitals...