Cardiac infected his patients with staphylococcus

The scandal erupted in the Cedars-Sinai - a prestigious medical center in Los Angeles, a few patients who are sick with bacterial endocarditis. This disease is found among five people undergoing surgery for valve replacement. Surgery they spent the same doctor.
The first three cases of bacterial endocarditis were registered at the clinic in June 2012. Epidemiologists working in the medical institution, found that the cause of the disease was the staphylococcus bacteria, a strain of which was the same in all infected. This suggested that the infected patients   the same source. Carrier of the skin disease appeared cardiac surgeon. He unwittingly infected patients during the operation - bacteria passed on to his patients through microcracks in medical gloves.
Once it became clear who was the infectious agent, the administration raised the entire base of the clinic patients doctor. Through customer surveys clinic revealed that bacterial endocarditis two more people sick.
As a result, the four victims had to spend a second operation, and the surgeon's medical center was removed from operations until, until he finally beat the disease.

For reference:
Every year, because of the health workers who do not observe the rules of personal hygiene, in developed countries, killed 7 people out of 100; in developing countries the figure is 10 out of 100 patients These figures were announced by representatives of the World Health Organization in May 2012.

The fact of the topic:
Medics,   infecting patients It can be divided into two categories: infecting patients with dangerous infections due to criminal negligence and causing harm to human health specifically. A second group is much smaller, but it is - the real monsters.
In 2007, the Spanish anesthetist Juan Maes gave in 1933 in prison and fined $ 1 million. Valencia prosecutors failed to prove that professionals working in four hospitals of the city, from 1988 to 1997 he was infected with hepatitis C is not less than 276 patients, of whom three at the time of issuance was no longer alive.
According to Western media reports, the head of the hospital intensive care unit La Fe was a drug addict. It is administered to the patient anesthesia used syringes. At trial doctor-killer He said he was not aware of his terrible diagnosis, so his actions were in good faith, but the prosecution broke his version to the nines, proving that their diagnosis Maes knew at least since 1993.

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