Comments on: Welcome to RID’s Blog

By: Greg

Greg — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 21:43:39 +0000

Bravo RID! Keep up the great work.

By: kwatson73

kwatson73 — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 03:25:23 +0000

I really hope that RID is successful in lowering hospital infections. I am an Orthopedic Surgeon in Omaha NE and am very worried about surgical infections. I was told recently that because we were at the national average of 2.5% there was no problem with our infection rate. 2.5 infections per 100 patients is terrible! I have tried to institute the Steiros Algorithm at our hospital and no one believes that anything can make the infection rate better. The algorithm is a hospital and patient cleaning protocol developed by 2 MD’s in California who have reduced their hospitals infection rate to 0.2%, the lowest rate in California. The lead guy is Dr Alfonso Torres-Cook and the local LA press is calling him Dr Clean. He has been running hospital infection control programs for 15 years. He is using a product called Byotrol to clean the surfaces which forms a polymer layer to prevent bacterial growth for days. I am hoping that he can spread his algorithm everywhere (especially my hospital) to keep my patients safe. Good Luck. We need this to work.

By: mwells

mwells — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 14:41:02 +0000

Until recently, I thought that SSI’s did not affect me. I now have two friends in the last several months that went in to hospitals for procedures an came out with infections. In addition to that, I sell surgical products into the Operating Room and one of the new products that I sell is a silver impregnated dressing intended to deliver silver ions to the wound the very moment that it is sutured closed. Surgeons and hospitals are resistant to the technology because of the minor cost, $35.00, and they are denying that they have a problem with SSI’s.
The miminum cost of this dressing on EVERY incision before they leave the operating room seems like an easy decision if it prevents bacteria from getting into that wound before the skin heals.