Hospital Infection: From Miasmas to MRSA
2003; BMJ; Volume: 327; Issue: 7428 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1136/bmj.327.7428.1410
ISSN0959-8138
Autores Tópico(s)Global Healthcare and Medical Tourism
ResumoGraham A J Ayliffe, Mary P English Cambridge University Press, £24.95/$38, pp 274 ISBN 0 521 53178 0 Rating: ![Graphic][1] ![Graphic][2] ![Graphic][3] Next time you wash your hands before or after examining a patient, stop and consider how your action would have been viewed 150 years ago. Your colleagues would have looked at you askance; although a few would have been familiar with the work of various doctors—including John Pringle, James Lind, Alexander Gordon, Oliver Wendell Holmes, and Ignaz Semmelweis—who advocated washing yourself before contact with patients, most would have told you derisively that washing would not affect the miasmas, or … [1]: /embed/inline-graphic-1.gif [2]: /embed/inline-graphic-2.gif [3]: /embed/inline-graphic-3.gif
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