6月12日VOA常速聽力：智能鞋贊助削減病院沾染
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control andPrevention say that, in 2011, about 75,000hospital patients in the U.S. died of causesrelated to healthcare-associated infections, orHAI for short. One French hospital is trying tolower the rate of infections by asking its staff towear so-called ‘smart shoes.’
Hospitals need to be the epitome of cleanliness.
The problem is, harmful microorganisms are stubborn creatures able to find their way into evenhighly sterile environments such as hospital operating rooms.
One of the ways they get there is by hitching a ride on humans, especially on our hands.
That's no surprise, so at the Department of Infectious and Tropical Diseases in North Hospital,in Marseille, France, hydro-alcoholic solution dispensers are everywhere, The problem is thatmembers of the staff, like nurse Lugdivine Gancia, aren't perfect, and sometimes they forget towash their hands before touching a patient.
“Yes, because there are situations when we forget or we omit to do the hydro-alcoholicsolution. When we bring in food trays, we don't always think about the hydro-alcoholicsolution, "said Gancia.
Since 2013 the hospital has been testing a system, developed by French companies Micro BEand Ephygie-Hand, for tracking how often the staff uses sanitizer dispensers.
Department head Dr. Philippe Brouqui explains that radiofrequency identification chips, orRFIDs, are placed in soles of hospital shoes, while antennas are placed on the floor.
“The system knows that I'm on this antenna, I'm going to take here the hydro-alcoholicsolution, it sends an impulse to the same system so we know that I took some alcohol," saidBrouqui.
The system registers every time the dispenser is used and sends text messages to the staffabout their compliance rate.
“Here is an sms [text message] sent every 15 days to two different groups in terms of shifts,that tells us our level of hand washing, not the exact level, but whether we have improved, if wehaven't improved, or, on the contrary, if we've done worse," said Brouqui.
Brouqui says since the system was installed it has improved the level of compliance from 20 toalmost 50 percent. His goal is to get it to 80 percent. He also dreams of setting up alarms thatwould go off whenever a member of staff approaches a patient before using the sanitary lotiondispenser.
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病院須要成為幹凈的範例。
題目是，有害微生物是固執的家夥，總能想方法來到高度無菌的情況中，好比病院的手術室。
個中一個方法便是搭便車粘在人身上，特別是手上。
以是絕不奇異，在法國馬賽北方病院的沾染病和熱帶病部，含水酒精溶液分發器到處可見。題目是像護士Lugdivine Gancia如許的醫護職員其實不完善，偶然他們會在打仗病人以前忘卻洗手。
“是的，由於有時刻咱們會忘卻或疏忽掉含水酒精溶液，當咱們帶來食物托盤時，其實不老是會想起含水酒精溶液。”
從2013年起，這家病院開端測試一個由法國公司Micro BE和Ephygie-Hand開辟的體系，用於追蹤醫護職員應用洗手液的頻率。
部分主管菲利普博士說明說，這類射頻辨認芯片(RFIDs)被安排在病院用鞋的鞋底上，其天線安排在地板上。
“體系會曉得我銜接到天線上了，當我預備去含水酒精溶液時，它就會向統一個體系發出脈沖，如許我就曉得我在取溶液。”
每次去取溶液，這個體系就會掛號一次，並向醫護職員發有關他們屈服率的短信。
“每15分鐘就會向兩個輪班的小組發短信，告訴咱們洗手的頻率，固然其實不很確實，但能解釋咱們是不是有所改良，照樣沒有改良，大概相反，做得更糟。”
菲利普博士說，自從安置該體系後，已將屈服率從20%進步到50%，他的目的是進步到80%。他還願望安置如許的警報體系，不管何時醫護職員在沒有應用幹凈洗手液就靠近病人時，它就會發出警報。
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