Millions of Hospital ICU Patients Treated for Blood Infections

Boston (DbTechNo) - A new study suggests that about half of all hospital patients in intensive care units also have some form of infection.

The study was conducted by researchers lead by Dr. Jean-Louis Vincent of Erasme University Hospital in Brussels.

They tracked more than 13000 patients and made a number of remarkable discoveries.

The patients came from 1,300 intensive care units in 75 countries.

51% of patients surveyed for the study had some form of infection, and more than 70% of them were receiving antibiotics.

First of all, blood born infections such as sepsis, as well as MRSA superbugs were found quite commonly in ICU patients.

Infections are treated with antibiotics, but the problem with this fact is that now many forms of drug-resistant infections are being detected in hospitals, thus intensifying the problem.

A hospital is the last place you would think of when thinking of a place were infections would be commonly passed from one person to the next, thus making this study finding very interesting.

“Importantly, the incidence of sepsis is increasing, as is the number of consequent infection-related deaths,” Vincent said.