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Como combater a resistência antimicrobiana

Jul 20, 2017 Jörg Reinhardt

ZURIQUE —Há duas semanas, os líderes do G20 assumiram o compromisso de trabalhar em conjunto para enfrentar uma das ameaças no domínio da segurança mais prementes e desconcertantes do mundo: a resistência antimicrobiana (RAM) —um adversário feroz e em evolução contra o qual as armas terapêuticas convencionais são inúteis.

A ameaça é evidente: as bactérias e outros micróbios estão a tornar-se resistentes aos medicamentos disponíveis a um ritmo mais acelerado do que o do desenvolvimento de novos medicamentos. Todos os anos, os micróbios resistentes a medicamentos são responsáveis pela morte de cerca de 700 mil pessoas em todo o mundo —mais do triplo do número anual de mortes decorrentes de conflitos armados.

Em 2016, um painel especial encomendado pelo governo britânico previu que até 2050, pelo menos mais dez milhões de pessoas morrerão anualmente devido a micróbios resistentes a medicamentos. A RAM representa actualmente um perigo claro e eminente para todas pessoas no planeta. Se não a enfrentarmos directamente, poderemos voltar a um mundo em que é comum as pessoas morrerem de uma simples infecção.

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On Antimicrobial Resistance, It’s Now or Never
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On Antimicrobial Resistance, It’s Now or Never

Jim O'Neill & Eric Goosby warn that untreatable infections will wreak economic and medical havoc if we don't address them now.

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MAYA MAYA Apr 27, 2021

Since 1989, I have warned, begged memebers of my profession and device manufacturers to start thinking and prepare for a pandamic of superbugs, but failed. Scientists and doctors lived under an illusion based on therotical idelaism, implimented stratergies that are abasalete and escilated the crisis that ripped apart families and bankrupted nation.

This article, and recent publications support my claim "We found that sepsis due to lung infections and respiratory insuficiency were the most frequent immediate causes of death"(https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-82862-5).

My article "Superbug Pandamic and How to prevent them", published in American Interest in 2017, and Key note address "Elephant in the Doctors room", explains the problems and solution that can help manage the 21st century crisis.

We must step out of the box, stop advicing people to travel to get tests, empower them to make informed decesion and isolate themself at home, to protect family, friends and healthcare workers. If we don't we will prove Issac Newtons prediction will turnout to be true.
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Rajiv Nath Jul 23, 2017

Fighting A war with AMR is not only about bigger guns and newer guns with better antibiotics and more research but also on prevention of infections especially those acquired in hospitals which lead to usevif these antibiotics- focus needs to be on a registry of infections and IPC techniques being implemented as these simple action items get overlooked all the time so you have unsafe injections, double dipping of injections in multi dose vials on different patients, reuse of Syringes instead of ensuring only auto disable Syringes are used in public healthcare , not changing the IV set every time you changed an IV Catheter and vice Versa etc
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- MAYA MAYA Apr 27, 2021
  
  In 1992, I published my first article linking IV Cannula and catheters increase MRSA in hospital. In 2003, I invented U-Cannula, and exhibited the device in Medica, Germany in 2006. I warned device manufacturers, doctors and pharmacutical companies about the pandamic. https://www.medica-tradefair.com/en/News/Archive/Safer_Than_Safety_Cannula, saying its not the life of healthcare workers but lives of billions of people we must be worried.
  
  The greed, and overenthusiastic urge to protect their investment, institution, pharmacutical companies and even healthcare providers have distroyed modern medicine. The sharks are waiting for the pilot fishes to dissapear.
  
  This report and others have shown the cause of death in COVID infection is not related to pre-morbid condition, but lung infection (Sepsis and DIC). I anticipate more than 10 million deaths every years sooner than the CDC prediction of 2050.
  
  Author of "Superbug Pandemic and How to prevent them", American Interset (2017) and creater of an application Dr Maya to identify infected individual and isolate them at home
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Katarzyna Ornowska Jul 22, 2017

Very disappointed in how this article fails to speak about the causes behind this horrible problem.
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prashanth kamath Jul 22, 2017

Stop using antibiotics for animals!
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Sonia Wolff Jul 21, 2017

Again it is the G20 countries. What hope is there for the rest who many times have to pay such elevated prices for medicine due to the laboratories' royalties? Laboratories of course need to make profits in order to be able to do research, but the price difference from lab to consumer is most of the time outrageous
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artheek vijay Jul 20, 2017

WHY CANT MOSQUITOES BE KILLED?
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