One in 25 patients gains an infection during hospital stay
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, or the CDC, took a survey in 2011 of 183 hospitals showed that an estimated 648,000 patients nationwide suffered 721,000 infections, and 75,000 of them died. They say its impossible to know how many deaths are related to the infection alone but, “today and every day, more than 200 Americans with healthcare-associated infections will die during their hospital stay,” CDC Director Tom Frieden said in a news release.
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Decreased Vitamin D Levels Associated With Greater Risk Of Infection In Surgery Patients
An article published online in the American Medical Association journal, JAMA Surgery, reveals a greater risk of hospital- acquired infection among gastric bypass surgery patients with diminished levels of vitamin D.
Sadeq A. Quarishi, MD, MHA, of Massachusetts General Hospital and colleagues conducted a retrospective analysis of 770 obese adults who underwent gastric bypass surgery. Serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D levels were measured within 30 days prior to the procedure. Hospital- acquired infection, including surgical site infection, catheter-related, Urinary tract infection, pneumonia, or bacteremia, occurred in 41 men and women between 2 and 30 days after admission.
Among subjects whose 25-hydroxyvitamin D levels were less than 30 nanograms per milliliter the risk of acquiring an infection while hospitalized was three times as great as the risk experienced by those whose levels were higher.
