Post op Infections Climb Despite Control Measures Zoler From the American college of Surgeons Surgery News Vol. 6, No. 8, June 2010

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The pathogens causing post surgical infections were not controlled by the steps that hospitals took in recent years to fight the infections, according to data from more than 183,000 hospitalized patients. This was in a study termed the Surgical care Improvement Project (SCIP) by 2006, because that was the year that the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services began imposing a reimbursement penalty to hospitals that failed to report their compliance with the SCIP. Despite widespread compliance, postoperative infection rates in patients undergoing elective colostomy or cholecystectomy in 2006 significantly surpassed the rates in the same hospital in 2001. This was most likely do to changes in the pathogens that surgical patients encounter while hospitalized. There is a huge reservoir of very drug-resistant organisms and their prevalence increased over the same period that was looked at.

     It appears that a new approach is indicated. We are studying such an approach in using the supplement Blue green algae, an oral stem cell releaser and anti-inflammatory agent in post-operative inguinal hernia patients. A positive result in this stage 2 study would be an indication to try the supplement in other surgical patients.