Healthcare-Associated Infections
Healthcare-Associated Infections or HAIs are infections you may get in a health care facility while you are receiving treatment for a different condition bacteria such as methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus also known as MRSA Enterococcus species and Clostridium difficile or c diff are frequently the cause of healthcare-associated infections these infections are a major cause of death around the world one of the most common ways these bacteria get passed from person to person is through lack of proper hand hygiene when people don't clean their hands they can transfer microbes from one patient to another or from one part of the body to another on the same patient there are four common types of healthcare-associated infections a surgical wound infection can result when bacteria get into your incision and spread through your tissues leading to infection a urinary tract infection can occur when you have a catheter in your bladder which is a tube used to drain your urine bacter...