Some Cases Of MRSA on The Decline

Seattle – MRSA (methicillin-resistent staphylocauccus aureus) has declined in some hospital intensive care units up to 70% according to Centers of Disease Control (CDC) and Prevention researchers in a new report published in the February 18 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association. MRSA infections reported to the CDC from 1997 – 2007 were used to formulate this conclusion.

MRSA is a hard to treat staph resistant infection of the blood but it can also cause skin infections in healthy people. Most MRSA blood infections in the past have been acquired thorough central line insertion. However new procedures and checklists leading to better sterile conditions during central line catheter insertion have led to the drop in the number of these infections according to lead researcher, Dr. Deron C. Burton, associate director of CDC’s Health Equity National Center for Health Marketing.

MRSA blood stream infections were once common occurrences. The results of this study indicate that when prevention techniques are scrupulously followed in the health-care setting they are dramatically effective in reducing the number of these infections in central line catheter placement as well as in many other hospital infections. Effective prevention techniques have brought down the number of over all hospital infections.