Leveraging the Syndromic Surveillance capabilities of MEDITECH to prevent Sepsis My Personal Inspiration to Prevent HAI When I was eleven years old my Father was hospitalized for complications that were non-life threatening, yet due to a series of unfortunate events peppered with carelessness and lack of enforcing protocols he never did make it back home. He acquired pneumonia from being placed on a ventilator and eventually developed sepsis, which unfortunately is an all too common occurrence. Hospital associated pneumonia (HAP) occurs in 5-15 out of every 1000 admissions; adding a ventilator increases the odds of infection by 6 to 20% (VAP) and Ventilator Associated Pneumonia is the leading nosocomial infection in the ICU. In American hospitals alone, its estimated that HAIs account for 1.7 million infections and 99,000 associated deaths each year. Patients who acquire infections from surgery spend, on average,..
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