Hospitals Administer Germ-Killing Baths To ICU Patients To Protect Against Superbugs.

reports HCA, the largest chain of for-profit hospitals in the United States, has adopted a regime to bath patients admitted to the ICU with germ-killing soap, while also administering an antibiotic nose ointment twice daily for five days to protect against superbugs. The technique stems from a study published in the New England Journal of Medicine in 2013. At the request of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the National Institutes of Health, another study called Abate is investigating the treatment of patients in other hospitals in other units besides the ICU. https://mail.google.com/_/scs/mail-static/_/js/k=gmail.main.en.HYfHhmCGcLw.O/m=m_i,t,it/am=OotHAjD_7_3BuJYBQFb6QIV53_98c6n8sMs9_n8fEIW8Cvy_2f8D-D_Yi7ZQ/rt=h/d=1/rs=AHGWq9CZSmuAIidmp2k9mDLMQS1eQvfKqw