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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Awareness, Prevention and Services for the Treatment of Sepsis: Discussion (15 Nov 2023)

...through GPs how often we use antibiotics and whether usage is going up or down. We have seen in recent years a drop-off in those resistant bugs such as methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus, MRSA, and vancomycin-resistant enterococci, VRE, and others through more prudent use of antibiotics. The message we give is we want to increase awareness of sepsis and we want early...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Awareness, Prevention and Services for the Treatment of Sepsis: Discussion (15 Nov 2023)

...protocols in hospitals for dealing with different types of infection depending on how contagious they were before the pandemic, including clostridium difficile and, as the Deputy referenced, MRSA, where the practice is to isolate and to ensure that the risk is not passed onto other patients. We are dealing with greatly varying infrastructure in our hospitals apart from any deficit in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Awareness, Prevention and Services for the Treatment of Sepsis: Discussion (15 Nov 2023)

Cathal Crowe: ...did my own research on sepsis. Sepsis itself is not contagious but some of the infections that lead to sepsis can be contagious. Where there is sepsis in the hospital environment, we all know how MRSA and the winter vomiting bug are dealt with, but are there certain protocols that happen in the wider hospital context? I am particularly thinking of hospital systems such as University...