Klaus-Dieter Zastrow

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Klaus-Dieter Zastrow

Klaus-Dieter Zastrow (* 1950 in Berlin ) is a German specialist in hygiene and honorary professor . He is known for his work in the field of hospital hygiene .

Life

Zastrow studied medicine at the Free University of Berlin from 1976 to 1981 . From 1982 to 1984 he was a research assistant at the Institute for General Hygiene. From 1984 to 1985 he was an assistant doctor in general surgery at the Behring Hospital in Berlin-Zehlendorf. From 1985 to 1987 he was the epidemic officer of the state of Berlin at the Senator for Health and Social Affairs in Berlin and head of the department for general hygiene and health environmental protection. From 1987 to 1995 Zastrow was director and professor at the Federal Health Office / Robert Koch Institute and head of the "Communicable Diseases, Vaccination and Hospital Hygiene" department. For nine years he was chairman of the commission for hospital hygiene and infection prevention (KRINKO) and managing director of the permanent vaccination commission of the Federal Health Office (Stiko). From 1995 to 2002 he worked as chief physician at the Institute for Hygiene and Environmental Medicine Humboldt Hospital Berlin-Reinickendorf. From 2002 to March 2017 he was chief physician and director of the Institute for Hygiene and Environmental Medicine (IHU) at Vivantes Kliniken Berlin. In April 2016 he took over the management of the hygiene institute for the RegioMed clinic network in northern Upper Franconia and southern Thuringia. This employment relationship was terminated in July 2020 by mutual agreement, the reason for this were interviews in which Prof. Zastrow made insulting statements to employees of the Regiomed group or accused the local health authorities of gross breach of duty, which led to a lawsuit against Zastrow for defamation moved. Prof. Zastrow has been honorary professor for hospital hygiene at the Technical University of Central Hesse Gießen since 2013 .

Clinical-scientific contribution

Zastrow dealt early with infections in hospitals. Already in 1989/94 he determined 40,000 deaths and 1 million infections in German clinics. The proportion of nosocomial infections in deaths in hospitals was 12.1%. The infection numbers determined at that time are constant to this day. Zastrow was already calling for the establishment of a nationwide hygiene regulation . This was introduced on his sustainable initiative in 2011 with the law amending the Infection Protection Act and other laws . For this purpose, in cooperation with Klaus-Dieter Zastrow, Jens Ackermann and Martin Lindner , both members of the Bundestag of the FDP , § 23 "Nosocomial infections; resistances; legal ordinances by the states" was proposed as a new paragraph in the Infection Protection Act and on August 3, 2011 also by the Bundestag in Adopted as part of the aforementioned amendment to the law. With this paragraph, the legislator for the first time demands hygiene specialists for all German hospitals ( specialist in hygiene , hygiene specialist ).

Memberships

Zastrow has been a board member of the German Society for Hospital Hygiene (DGKH) since 1998 , he has been head of the hospital construction section since 2008 and head of public relations from 1998 to 2014. He was chairman of the board of the professional association of German hygienists from 2000 to 2016. Zastrow is a member of the hygiene commission of the Federal Institute for Risk Assessment (BfR).

literature

  • Hohenstein report. Special publication for the 60th birthday of Dr. med Klaus-Dieter Zastrow. Ed .: Hohenstein Laboratories. Institute for Hygiene and Biotechnology. Bönnigheim 2010.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ REGIOMED-KLINIKEN Hygiene Institut ( Memento of the original dated February 12, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.regiomed-kliniken.de
  2. ↑ Zastrow on the person
  3. ↑ Zastrow, K.-D. Hospital infections - a medical, social, and economic problem. Labor and Social Policy 10 (1989), 300--302
  4. ↑ Zastrow, K.-D. and I. Schöneberg: Nosocomial infection as a cause of death. Gesundh.-Wesen 56 (1994), 122-125
  5. ↑ Act amending the Infection Protection Act and other laws August 3, 2011
  6. ↑ § 23 "Nosocomial infections; resistances; statutory ordinances by the federal states"
  7. ↑ Hygiene specialist (DocCheck)
personal data
SURNAME Zastrow, Klaus-Dieter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German hygienist
DATE OF BIRTH 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin