Hospital-acquired infections, also known as HAIs or nosocomial infections, are diseases that are passed around medical treatment facilities from patient to patient.
Typically, outbreaks of these illnesses arise, HAIs can be quite dangerous for patients because they have already-weakened immune systems and therefore may encounter significant difficulty when trying to recover from their original ailments as well as these new infections.
Causes of Nosocomial Infections There are a number of ways that nosocomial infections may be passed around the patients of a medical facility, and all are related to a lack of enforced sterilization practices.
When doctors and hospital workers are negligent in how they handle patients, they may facilitate the transfer of HAIs from person to person.
When hospital management does not have established sanitation protocol, patients may also be put at risk of developing dangerous nosocomial infections.
Some of the more common causes of HAIs include the following:

• Failure to sterilize equipment
• Failure to wash hands and arms when moving from patient to patient, or before entering an operation room
• Failure to wear the required uniform when working with patients
• Lack of sanitary protocol
• Failure to clean an operating room before another patient is admitted into it
• Failure to adequately isolate patients from one another
• Failure to wear a sterile mask when necessary

All of these causes of HAIs are inexcusable.
Therefore, if you have developed a nosocomial infection, then you likely have the right to take legal action against the physician or facility at fault.
Types of HAIs Some hospital acquired infections tend to arise more often than others.
These include the following illnesses:

• Urinary tract infections (UTIs)
• Birth infections (in both mother and child)
• Infections from surgery
• E.
  coli infections
• Respiratory infections - most commonly, pneumonia
• Staph infections

Depending on how severe a state the patient was in prior to developing the HAI, and depending on the type of illness caught, he or she may be put at risk of death.
Because of this, it is extremely important for hospitals to ensure that patients are isolated, physicians use sterilization practices, and all equipment is clean and bacteria-free.
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