jcaho strengthening its infection standards cdc guideline shows hand washing is one of the main ways to stop crossinfection statistics show 90000 health careassociated infectionrelated deaths per year pressure has been increased on toplevel management in health care organizations electrostimulation of the interatrial septum the first clinical experience of the successful application of electrostimulation of the atrial septum is described sickleshaped electrodes were used for this purpose electrostimulation of the atrial septum was medically indicated in all cases in 2 cases the electrode was fixed to the atrial septum after openheart surgery and in 3 cases it was done because of an excessively high threshold of cardiac electrostimulation sickleshaped electrodes are shown to be the most optimal for continuous electrostimulation of the atrial septum