#nosocomial — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #nosocomial, aggregated by home.social.
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DO HARM: The Book That Began with a Word I Did Not Know
I am not a physician. I have never cultured a specimen, read a chest film, or signed a death certificate. I trained as a dramatist at Columbia, in the Oscar Hammerstein II Center, which qualifies me to tell you how a scene builds and not much else about a hospital. So let me get the obvious objection out of the way early, because it is the first thing a serious reader should ask. What business does a playwright have writing a book about hospital-acquired infection? The answer is the whole book, and it starts in a shut room in Newark in 2002. […]https://bolesblogs.com/2026/07/21/do-harm-the-book-that-began-with-a-word-i-did-not-know/
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#Andes Virus #Exposure and #Nosocomial #Transmission Events to #Healthcare Personnel: A Systematic Review, https://etidiohnew.blogspot.com/2026/06/andes-virus-exposure-and-nosocomial.html
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#Italy, #COVID19 #nosocomial #outbreak in a long-term care facility in Treviso Town, #Venice Region, https://www.ilgazzettino.it/schede/covid_casa_riposo_anziani_positivi_treviso-8971812.html
Two elderly patients hospitalized and others in isolation.
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This is mind boggling. Infection control literally becomes “infections welcome” if you refuse to follow the science.
They should be emphatically supporting N95s in healthcare settings.
Patients are being killed by hospital acquired COVID.
It has a 10% fatality rate - and most healthcare facilities are refusing to even TRY to minimize it.
No one should have to choose between care and Covid. While I will never agree it should be the patient’s responsibility to mitigate their own covid risk - until our institutions step up and do the right thing - here’s my guide to avoiding covid in hospital:
https://www.disabledginger.com/p/how-to-stay-covid-safe-when-in-hospital
#covidisairborne #sarscov2 #infectioncontrol #nosocomial #covidisnotover #wearamask #keepmasksinhealthcare #eugenics #ableism #disability #pandemic #N95
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Short 🧵 by @ejustin46.bsky.social on "Impact of UNIVERSAL MASKING in REDUCING the RISK of NOSOCOMIAL RESPIRATORY VIRUSES among PEOPLE with CANCER" threadreaderapp.com/thread/18498... #Nosocomial #HAIs #Masks #Masking #Cancer
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#Nosocomial transmission is obscene.
It simply beggars belief that with what we know and with the simple mitigations that are available anyone should contract #Covid — or really any airborne disease — in a healthcare setting.
Given that basic ethics don't seem to have an effect, and I suspect that fines would be passed on to insurers, I'd like to see hospital administrators charged with reckless endangerment. That might get their attention.
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@Billius27 @harriettmb Grateful for comprehensive manifesto by #healthcare workers. I liked the part about “multi-layered protections. That’s a useful phrase. People take #ventilation and #vaccination for granted, ignoring #testing and #tracing. I was unfamiliar with the term #nosocomial, but not the concept. Members of my circle of friends, family working in healthcare note patients’ vulnerability to #airborne disease. Elder friends awaiting care in ERs contracted Covid-19.
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Found another option to view the #HICPACmeeting in full! #CDC #HICPAC #InfectionPreventionAndControl #PublicHealth #HICPACcommittee #COVID19 #COVIDconscious #COVIDsafety #HealthcareSafety #SafeHealthcare #BringMasksBackInHealthcare #Nosocomial #HAI #CovidIsntOver #CovidIsAirborne #CleanAirForAll #HealthcareIsAHumanRight #recording #YouTube
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It's understandable that health care workers are proud of their service and want to signal it. Perhaps the institutions could issue jackets with "colors" like those worn by motorcycle clubs. On top could be the city. The main logo would represent the specific hospital. Patches would designate schools, degrees and specialties.
Official garb would also facilitate responding to an emergency.
#Nosocomial #infectiousdiseases #publichealth #medicine #infectiousdisease
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Health care workers should shower and change into uniforms upon arriving at the hospital. End of shift, they should again shower and put their street clothes back on. The garments worn while working should be laundered at the facility.
#Nosocomial #infectiousdiseases #publichealth #medicine #infectiousdisease
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Health care personnel wearing scrubs on their morning commute carry the current Top 40 disease causing organisms playing on public transportation in to the hospital. Wearing the same back home gives the general populace a chance of being exposed to suitcase pathogens and uber-mutated microorganisms having gained virulence and/or transmissibility in the health care setting a la mode Paul Ewald.
#Nosocomial #infectiousdiseases #publichealth #medicine #infectiousdisease
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A related discussion is health care facilities as threats to public health. I recall a study of ATMs near hospitals as possible shared hearths, for here the spread of disease instead of culture. I am always shocked to see doctors or nurses in their work clothes on public transportation.
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A hospital stay was a death sentence for a local centenarian. I'm told that a 100 year old woman who lived a few doors down from Jersey City Free Books suffered a fall at home. This mishap was serious enough to require hospitalization. There, she was infected with SARS CoV 2 and quickly died.
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typical outpatient setting, the required indoor #CO2 concentration at which R0 does not exceed 1 is below 620 ppm w no mask, 1000 ppm w a surgical mask and 16000 ppm w an N95 mask. In a typical inpatient setting, otoh the required indoor CO2 concentration is below 540 ppm with no mask, 770 ppm with a surgical mask, and 8200 ppm with an N95 mask. These findings facilitate the establishment of a strategy for preventing #airborne transmission in hospitals. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37286835/ #nosocomial
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@luckytran And yet hospitals is where you get a higher concentration of vulnerable and at-risk patients. Even catching a common cold from someone in a crowded waiting room can trigger serious problems in people with #asthma, #cancer, transplant recipients, etc. There must be data out there showing a drop in #nosocomial infections during #mask wearing during mandates?
Not just hospitals, any healthcare setting where vulnerable people and sick people are likely to mix -- including their FP's clinic.
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Note that early-pandemic (March to August 2020) data was used to isolate the effect of measures on #nosocomial infections.
Also to note: wearing goggles during interactions with patients also carried a strong protective effect.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36865900/ -
The data is from mid-2020, so a general "hospital-manifested COVID-19" classification was used. It's not known if the infections are #nosocomial. Even if they are not, suffice it to say that no infection is good for patient outcomes.
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CW: Death, very odd
#Hospital-acquired infections.
#nosocomial #iatrogenic infections
Because #hospitals are #superspreader locations now, especially for #Covid and other #airborne #aerosol diseases.
They need #HEPA filters (the Cambridge UK hospital study is pinned to my profile).
They need #P100 masks (the TB hospital proved that these work https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/03/health/covid-ppe-masks-health-care.html )
They have neither. It is safer to stay home if you break your leg than it is to go to the #doctor in most places now.
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Thank you. Testing now...
#Covid #CovidIsNotOver #Nosocomial #CovidIsAirborne #HEPA #N95 #P100
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@themushroom Because doctors are not following proper AIRBORNE infection control protocols. They are infecting people.
(To answer the rhetorical question)
#CovidIsAirborne #Nosocomial #BadMedicine #Covid #Covid19
Doctors SHOULD have portable #HEPA filters in their offices and #N95 or #P100 masks on their faces. They don't.
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The immune system listens in on bacteria signaling to each other - Enlarge / Lactobacillus acidophilus and L. casei cultured from a commercial probiotic food gel sold... more: https://arstechnica.com/?p=1634431 #immunocompromised #immuneresponse #quorumsensing #nosocomial #infection #science