Welcome to RID’s Blog
Welcome to RID’s Blog,
The Committee to Reduce Infection Deaths is proud to launch our new Blog! Thank you for visiting our site. In the weeks ahead we will be adding new features. These new features will be interactive. RID needs to hear from you.
You may have noticed that in addition to this blog we have added a new visitor poll section to our homepage. Please vote. We want to know what interests you. Don’t forget to check back to see the results.
Hands of Hope Forum is partnering with RID and has joined our site. We are expanding on the wonderful supportive features of the Hands of Hope site. This new Forum will be a place of support, education and communication. We have started the forum with some posted topics. Please expand and add your own.
September 11th, 2008 at 2:41 pm
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.
September 29th, 2008 at 3:25 am
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.
November 7th, 2008 at 9:43 pm
Bravo RID! Keep up the great work.