Sepsis is the number one preventable cause of death in the world, but very few people know what it is and what the consequences are. Every year, around 49 million people suffers from sepsis and 11 million don’t survive. To raise awareness about how to prevent and identify signs of sepsis, World Sepsis Day takes place every year on September...
Overuse of antibiotics and superbugs could be worsening the Covid-19 pandemic in India, according to an Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) study of 10 hospitals. The study showed that more than half of the Covid-19 patients who get a secondary bacterial or fungal infection die. Covid-19 mortality worldwide is 10 %, the subgroup of patients...
Antibiotic resistance is one of the most acute health risks of our time. The threat is often referred to as "the silent tsunami" and could potentially nullify hundreds of years of medical progress, according to the WHO. To counteract the resistance, we need to prevent infections in healthcare and in our everyday lives - a challenge for which the...
A recent Italian publication has studied hospital-acquired infections (HAI) in critically ill COVID-19 patients. 774 patients with COVID-19 treated at intensive care unit (ICU) at 8 hospitals in Italy were included. The publication1 shows that 46 % of the critically ill COVID-19 patients developed HAI, of which 38 % were caused by multi-drug...
Yesterday the first joint working group of the “Healthcare associated infection – Vision zero for India” platform was held. Significant progress was made in the journey towards establishing a solid platform for reaching the goal of “zero healthcare-associated infections (HAI)” in India. The initiative is built on a triple helix model...
The Swedish Chemicals Agency has decided on a continued exemption to secure access to disinfectants in Sweden due to the corona pandemic. The exemptions apply to disinfectants which, among other things, contain hydrogen peroxide or active chlorine as mechanism of action. The Swedish Chemicals Agency assesses that there is a risk that there will...
The Swedish Cancer Society has appointed Professor Anna Martling as the winner of the prestigious award "Cancer Researcher of the Year 2021". Anna Martling is a Professor of Surgery with focus on colorectal cancer at Karolinska Institutet and Senior Consultant Colorectal Surgeon at Karolinska University Hospital. She is also a member of...
