The Washington Post today has an article referring a study done in 2004 and presented to the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine regarding emergency room visits for skin and soft tissue infections (SSTI’s):
Among people with SSTIs serious enough to warrant an ER visit:
· 60 percent had the MRSA strain of bacteria.
· At eight of the 11 sites, more than half the SSTI patients had MRSA infections.
The authors of the study conclude that MRSA has become the most common cause of SSTIs presenting to emergency rooms in the cities studied.
Keeping in mind that this study is 2 years old - I wonder how much these figures have changed? Also, this study was of only 11 emergency rooms around the country. I wonder what the figures are from all ER’s - I bet it is close to this.
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MRSA Notes » MRSA on ABC // Aug 17, 2006 at 6:21 am
[...] MRSA hits ABC News with an article based on the study we talked about the other day and released yesterday in the New England Journal of Medicine that shows how much more common MRSA is now than it was even 6 years ago. The article is fairly general, and I would sure like to see something coming out that accentuates preventative measures that we can all take to avoid MRSA, especially with school starting up and high school athletics in full swing, but perhaps that will come next. ABC? [...]
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