Healthcare Acquired Infections in New Zealand

Healthcare acquired infections in
New Zealand
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INTRODUCTION
• HAIs are contracted during therapy when the patient is in the
facility
• 10% of admitted patients develop HAI (Burns, Bowers, Pak,
Wignall & Roberts, 2012)
• HAI results to financial burdens, deaths and longer
hospitalizations
• New Zealand uses $50-$80 in treating HAIs (Burns, Bowers,
Pak, Wignall & Roberts, 2012).

HAI CAUSATION FACTORS
•Microorganisms; Staphylococcus aureus
(SA), Methicillin resistant SA (MRSA),
Escherichia coli (E.coli), Clostridium difficile
and Streptococcus pneumoniae
•Predisposing factors like weak immunity
•Poor ventilations in intensive care units

SA AND MRSA
• Causes skin and soft skin infections (SSTI), pneumonia,
septic arthritis, osteomyelitis, foreign body infections,
endocarditis and endovascular diseases (Liu et al., 2011)
• Common in hospitals as well as aged care facilities.
• MRSA is resistant all penicillin and beta-lactam
antibiotics (Magiorakos et al., 2012)
• Prevalence rate 10% (Williamson, et al., 2014).
• Infections have increased from 81 to 140 per 10, 000
person between 2000 and 2001 (Williamson et al., 2014)