Meaning of nosocomial | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Of an infection or its cause: arising from the environment of, or treatment in, a hospital.
   formal, not-comparable
2. Of, relating to, or happening in a hospital.
   formal, not-comparable, uncommon

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Examples

“It is a febrile disease accompanied by symptoms quite peculiar to it. […] There is a peculiar conformity between it and nosocomial fever, or typhus of prisons, described by Pringle [i.e., Sir John Pringle, 1st Baronet], a disease of a complicated nature, and named by Pinal adynamic & ataxic fever. We shall soon see⟳ that both may originate from analogous causes, and that a contagion not being sufficiently strong for developing the true nosocomial fever among healthy persons, may, nevertheless, produce⟳ hospital gangrene.”

“Professor Laveran furnishes this narration as a specimen of the injurious effects which nosocomial influences exert upon otherwise benign affections. The return⟳ of troops from the Italian war had the effect of producing great accumulations of troops in the military Hospitals. […] [W]e find⟳ that some [febrile diseases], as malarial diseases for example, are benefited by the very fact of residence within an Hospital, and are but little subjected to nosocomial influences.”

“Gosselin discovered that this mode of [raw cotton] dressing was not a certain prophylactic against nosocomial intoxication, because he saw⟳ a patient die⟳ of purulent infection, whose limb had been amputated in his service, and in another case an attack of erysipelas followed.”

“Nosocomial infections are infections occurring during hospitalization that were not present⟳, and not incubating, at the time of hospital admission[…]. All patients in an ICU are at increased risk⟳ of developing nosocomial infections[…].”

“The most common nosocomial infections are urinary tract infections (42 percent), followed by surgical wound infections (24 percent), pneumonia (10 percent), and infections of the bloodstream (bacteremia) (5 percent). […] Almost three-quarters of nosocomial infections occur⟳ among patients undergoing surgery […] The most difficult obstacle to the reliable measurement of nosocomial infections is the lack of standardized case finding.”

“For many years we have⟳ known that patients at high risk⟳ for nosocomial rhinosinusitis are those who require⟳ extended periods of intensive care with prolonged endotracheal intubation or nasogastric tubing[…]. Nasotracheal intubation has a higher risk⟳ for nosocomial sinusitis than orotracheal intubation[…].”

“In 1822 he [Étienne Serres] left the Hôtel Dieu for La Pitié, where he remained until he had attained the legal limit⟳ of age which compels the nosocomial physicians and surgeons of Paris to retire⟳ from office. At this point⟳ terminates the strictly medical part of M. Serres' career, during which he gained great distinction as a nosocomial physician, and published several works of value.”

“I immediately set⟳ the bones and applied a temporary bandage, then took the dog to my private hospital […] Unique Nosocomial Treatment [section heading] After this, I applied a bandage-padded pack⟳, reaching from the top of the shoulders to the root of the tail to prevent⟳ arching movements of the back, […]”

“It is also in part the nosocomial treatment schedules that have⟳ drawn our attention to this important field. I suggest⟳ that with shock⟳ lung we are dealing with a problem of multiple organ failure, not just the lung.”

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