INFECTION CONTROL “I was readmitted on 7 June 2013 and
had various washouts and vacuum dressings to try and get rid of the infection. I was there until 1 August; then allowed to go home, only to be readmitted on 5 August, and remained in hospital for various operations, including the removal of my new hip. I wasn’t discharged from hospital until May 2014, and this was with an open wound. It is open to this day (October 2015).” She went on to describe the way that her
life had changed significantly for the worse: “I am still sleeping downstairs. I cannot wash below my knees. I haven’t had a shower since May 2014. I cannot dress myself fully. I am reliant on my daughter to bring me clean clothes, to help me with washing, and I am no longer able to vacuum or dust, to stand to bake; I’m totally dependent on my daughter – even to get over the doorstep and get out. “I used to be an independent, stubborn
old woman. Now I feel I am stubborn, but I am also getting very bad tempered and get upset very easily. Everything I do is dependent on my daughter, who is in full- time work. Her life and my own have totally changed. “I used to be able to go out and visit
people; to follow whatever I wanted to do. During the day, she feels she cannot leave me with anything to do in case I fall over, and, when she works night shifts, I have to go to bed at 9.00 pm – at almost 71 years old, I find it hard to be told ‘you have to go to bed
Triclosan-impregnated suture in Petri dish cultured with Staphylococcus aureus showing zone of inhibition.
now’. My daughter will not leave me, so her social life has been curtailed. She hasn’t been able to go on holiday with her partner for over two years, because she is frightened she will get there and receive a telephone call to come back. “It has had a devastating effect. I feel very
guilty that she has not been able to have her life. I used to look after my mum and dad and I know how awful it can be, and now I am putting my daughter through the same. At the moment, I cannot see a future and I have a lot of pain. “I have been given a date for what will be
my tenth operation, to try and sort my hip out – they had to remove my new hip and insert girdle stones. I hope after this last operation,
there will be light at the end of the tunnel, for my daughter and for myself.” Judith Tanner, Professor of Adult Nursing
at the University of Nottingham, went on to provide further insights into patients’ experiences of SSI. She commented that some patients, when questioned, do not even realise they have experienced an SSI, despite having received treatment for an infection, while a common perception is that SSIs cannot be prevented and are ‘just bad luck’. “This is a time-bomb waiting to happen.
If people become more aware that there is something that we can do, litigation will be a worry,” she commented. “Patients often talk about ‘guilt’ – ‘It’s my fault I got an infection’. A woman came up to me at a conference in floods of tears and said that she had a C-section two years previously. Ever since she was a teenager she had dreamt of getting married and having babies, and when she did become pregnant she couldn’t wait to have the baby, but then she got a wound infection. “She said to me: ‘I couldn’t bend over and
pick her up. I couldn’t feed her because it was too painful to have her across my chest, and I didn’t bond with her. I will never get that back. Two years later and every day I feel guilty.’ She said that she didn’t know that something could have been done to prevent that. She thought it was her fault.” When asked about their experiences as part of qualitative research, patients talked
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