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Risk of nosocomial infection from operating room

The operating room, the intensive care unit (ICU) focuses on critically ill patients, performing many invasive surgeries and procedures, so there is a high risk of infection.

Director of the Medical Equipment and Construction Department (Ministry of Health), Nguyen Minh Tuan on November 22 assessed that the operating room and ICU are the areas with the highest potential for infection at the hospital.

According to Mr. Tuan, bacteria can reside in patient care equipment, operating room instruments, surgeon's clothes, room doorknobs or from family members entering and leaving for care... Patients infected with infection Bacteria will have to take a long time to treat, have a high cost, and leave many serious complications.

Therefore, the hospital has increased investment in operating room equipment, integrating diagnostic, interventional and surgical equipment in the same area to save time, money, comply with the principle of aseptic...

"The most important criterion of the operating room is to ensure the safety of the patient, minimize the pollutants released into the environment", Professor, Dr. Cong Quyet Thang, President of Vietnam Anesthesiology and Resuscitation speak.

Modern operating room, infection control, safety for patients and medical staff.

Currently, hospitals invest in high technology for operating rooms, such as hybrid operating rooms, specialized operating rooms for cardiology, organ transplantation, trauma to general, specialized and minor surgery rooms... However, the quality is good. but not evenly.

"Some medical facilities have not yet ensured the isolation conditions, aseptic practices, environmental sanitation, sterilization and sterilization according to one-way processes, infection control leading to waste," said Dr. Do Lan Phuong, a specialist in infection control said.

In the near future, the Ministry of Health will issue guidance documents on the design, equipment and operation of surgical areas and ICUs at the hospital. Medical facilities apply this process to working in the operating room, reducing preparation time between surgeries, reducing service personnel and improving the quality of medical examination and treatment, and infection control more effectively.