the surgon's hand or patient's intestine?
2006-10-11 03:59:20 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Medicine
I mean the most possible source
2006-10-11 04:03:05 · update #1
It could be from anywhere (the intestine, the skin...), depending where the infection is. Is it on the skin? Inside the heart? IF you mean the heart surgery incision on the chest got infected, then there was e. coli on the skin, and it probably developed after surgery and not during.
During surgery, the doctors and nurses wear sterile gloves and follow a very complicated sterile technique for the very purpose of not transmitting germs.
2006-10-11 04:29:14 · answer #1 · answered by sarcastro1976 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the surgery theatre, the gloves, the sponges, etc. also could be just that there was e.coli there before and now that the immune system is thrown for a loop with repairing the body from surgery that the infection wasn't brought under control
2006-10-18 05:49:50 · answer #2 · answered by shiara_blade 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The infection could possibly come from the nursing staff, contaminated food during hospitalization unless the patient had it prior.
2006-10-15 15:27:46 · answer #3 · answered by nursing1care 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
that's confusing to declare who tousled here, whether it appears that evidently like somebody specific did. with regard to the nursing homestead corporation... hospitals will not save any sufferers that don't definitely prefer a scientific technique. they only can not arise with the funds for to be a rehab scientific institution. extra, maximum nursing properties at the instant are not from now on what they have been meant to be. this sort of nursing takes a great sort of time and a extensive volume of funds. in factor of certainty that your mom desires a 24-hour private nurse to tend to her. I doubt which you would be able to get this or maybe arise with the funds for it. i comprehend you like your mom, yet in factor of certainty she is fading and could in all probability in no way come back. there are various Seniors who choose out for compelled feeding and a respirator whilst they are able to not look after themselves. you ought to do an assessment of what you think of your mom could prefer in those circumstances. additionally, does your mom even have psychological potential to make judgements now? unhappy to declare, yet you may properly be extra effective off to take her homestead and make contact with the Hospice nurses. Take her off compelled food and respiratory and in basic terms permit her bypass. No, it may take a miracle for her to get from now on effective. that's confusing to declare no rely if the surgical operation became in basic terms botched, or no rely if the affected person in basic terms did not respond. yet you presently ought to handle the area because it extremely is, not what you like it became. in basic terms love your mom on an identical time as you have her, then permit her bypass. She could be residing between 2 worlds precise now and could prefer to bypass directly to the subsequent one.
2016-10-16 01:57:22 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
the surgeons hands.the intestine is too far down, besides the heart is protected by the diaphragm from the intestine
2006-10-11 04:31:07 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Hi. Both but I sure hope it is not a doctor's (or nurse's) hands.
2006-10-11 04:01:52 · answer #6 · answered by Cirric 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋