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Bacteria detected in the ICU of Cunqueiro leaves about twenty positive cases
Doctors noted that not all have to be infected and call for calm -Only four patients remain isolated -Defensor Patient asks Prosecutor to investigate what happened
Carlos Prego 20/03/2016 | 2:54
The Klebsiella bacteria detected in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of the hospital Alvaro Cunqueiro crops leaves 20 patients with positive results.Experts have thus confirmed twenty cases, but insist that they do not necessarily equate to infected patients and emphasize that the presence of such microorganisms in the intensive are not exceptional, nor in Vigo or hospitals in other countries .
The same medical sources say -not to official ICU came to be half a dozen patients, one of whom would have derived its reference center in Leon and another passed ward to evolve positively. Would like itself recognized the so Sergas Friday officially four patients who remain isolated to comply with the protocol eradication of Klebsiella. Sanidade yesterday claimed that these four people whose state would not have presented large variations-you remain cut off and had not detected any new cases in the hospital.
After detecting the problem services of Preventive Medicine and Intensive Alvaro Cunqueiro they adopted measures that dictate the protocols in force. Following the cases identified boxes of the hospital ICU they were disinfected, although these spaces and be open. The Sergas also insists emphatically that those responsible for the Cunqueiro in "no time" have raised the total or partial closure of the unit.
Health sources explained yesterday FARO DE VIGO that such infections occur in varying degrees for two or three years. Since then professionals along with pre-emptively apply UCI Medical prevention measures and isolation. The same sources say that patients come from outside the hospital and, therefore, of the Intensive Care Unit. Sergas stressed on Friday that has not yet been confirmed whether these people contracted the bacteria inside or outside the Alvaro Cunqueiro.
Doctors noted that not all have to be infected and call for calm -Only four patients remain isolated -Defensor Patient asks Prosecutor to investigate what happened
Carlos Prego 20/03/2016 | 2:54
The Klebsiella bacteria detected in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of the hospital Alvaro Cunqueiro crops leaves 20 patients with positive results.Experts have thus confirmed twenty cases, but insist that they do not necessarily equate to infected patients and emphasize that the presence of such microorganisms in the intensive are not exceptional, nor in Vigo or hospitals in other countries .
The same medical sources say -not to official ICU came to be half a dozen patients, one of whom would have derived its reference center in Leon and another passed ward to evolve positively. Would like itself recognized the so Sergas Friday officially four patients who remain isolated to comply with the protocol eradication of Klebsiella. Sanidade yesterday claimed that these four people whose state would not have presented large variations-you remain cut off and had not detected any new cases in the hospital.
After detecting the problem services of Preventive Medicine and Intensive Alvaro Cunqueiro they adopted measures that dictate the protocols in force. Following the cases identified boxes of the hospital ICU they were disinfected, although these spaces and be open. The Sergas also insists emphatically that those responsible for the Cunqueiro in "no time" have raised the total or partial closure of the unit.
Health sources explained yesterday FARO DE VIGO that such infections occur in varying degrees for two or three years. Since then professionals along with pre-emptively apply UCI Medical prevention measures and isolation. The same sources say that patients come from outside the hospital and, therefore, of the Intensive Care Unit. Sergas stressed on Friday that has not yet been confirmed whether these people contracted the bacteria inside or outside the Alvaro Cunqueiro.