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Semmelweis & Hand-washing ExamQuestions and Answers
Explain what is meant by a nosocomial infection - Correct Answers --When a patient is
infected in the hospital with something that they had not gone to the hospital for.
-5% to 10% of patients in acute care hospitals acquire nosocomial infections.
Semmelweis Hypothesis - Correct Answers -1. Semmelweis noticed a link between
those who performed autopsies and handled children and women to those who only
handled children and women.
• Hypothesis: Childbed fever was caused by 'cadaverous particles' or 'morbid matter'
transmitted from the hands of doctors and medical students to the obstetrics
ward. And introducing more meticulous hand hygiene in Division I could reduce
maternal mortality rates from childbed fever.
Semmelweis Hypothesis Test - Correct Answers -Semmelweis insisted that all medical
students and physicians should clean their hands with a
chlorine and lime solution before attending to any patient in the clinic.
Semmelweis Test Results - Correct Answers -Mortality rates in division 1 dropped to be
equal with devision 2 for the first time.
Semmelweis Conflict - Correct Answers -1. Professor Klein and others believed
Semmelweis's observations were in conflict with the prevailing
miasmatic hypothesis of disease. That the decline in mortality rates could be due to the
new ventilation system.
2. Semmelweis failed to publish his work until 13 years after his discovery and his work
was badly written
3. Doctors were reluctant to admit that they were
actually responsible for the deaths of many patients that were under their care.
4. The lack of indoor plumbing at the time making it
difficult to obtain access to fresh water. The practice of hand-washing would also have
been somewhat inconvenient for doctors and medical students at the time.
5. He was a Hungarian in Austria at the time of a xenophobic backlash in Europe.
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