Posted on 10/14/2014 9:15:46 PM PDT by sheikdetailfeather
CNN Chief Medical Correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta reported on further allegations made by a nurses union that Dallas Ebola patient Thomas Eric Duncan was not put into isolation, allowed his blood to circulate through the hospital’s tube system, and that waste “piled up nearly to the ceiling” inside patient’s rooms on Tuesday’s “CNN Tonight.”
Gupta said that the National Nurses United stated that they were informed by nurses that “Mr. Duncan was not in isolation. He was not in isolation for several hours, despite the fact that a nursing supervisor asked that he go into isolation, and that he may have come in contact with seven patients at that time.”
The also claimed, “the blood, the laboratory blood that was taken from Mr. Duncan was sent through the hospital tube system…and the concern is that tube system could potentially become contaminated as a result of the fact that this blood with Ebola was circulating through it.”
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And watch how fast Mexico militarizes the border with orders to shoot to kill ANYONE coming across without authorization.
It will be a different kind of invasion.
And I think you know that.
It would require only one post "Stay home until the threat has passed."
I mean back in the day, Sept 29th.
It is an attempt to keep U.S. hospitals "clean" so to speak, and prevent further infection of staff and other patients. The problem is that suspected cases will still go to their local ERs, so they will have to set up a pre-triage screening and isolation outside the building.
nurses are not in it for the money, the prestige, nor the glorious hours, nor the back breaking work....they're in so they can help people....
hey, if nurses would ever get serious they could actually earn the wages pensions and benefits of every other community type worker, like teachers, cops, and firemen...
Ha! That is the truth.
I am thinking the “tube system” refers to a vacuum transport tube system (like the drive up teller at the bank or the one for cash at Costco)...take a blood sample, seal the vial, label it, put it in a “carrier” and send to the hospital lab for testing.
Yeah, that could be.
At least Ebola virons wouldn’t stay viable for very long in that kind of tube system — would dry out very quickly. The first few canisters you put through it though could possibly end up contaminated.
Link to company that makes hospital pneumatic tube systems:
http://www.swisslog.com/en/Products/HCS/Automated-Material-Transport/Pneumatic-Tube-Systems-for-Hospitals
Not that I know of. Kartographer is probably the main survival guru here, and he has a ping list, too. You might check with him. Much of that is linked in the Surveillance Thread, but he may have other resources as well.
I’m pretty sure that even our two brand new hospitals here do not have pneumatic tube systems, but I am going to find out for sure. They still use runners to the best of my knowledge.
Megyn Kelly asked that of Tom Frieden.
He said that no protective head gear is needed again all !!!!!!!!!!!!
She couldn’t believe it either.
I hate unions — ALL UNIONS — because I love liberty. Abolish unions! Eradicate the minimum wage! Defund the CDC! Let freedom ring!
I would think that if done properly the pneumatic tube system could be used safely in an ebola situation...but in this situation I probably would have used a “special runner” briefed to “be careful with it”!! (Maybe plastic vials instead of glass?). I wonder what the blood lab procedures are in ebola testing? Did the CDC brief them on that?
“while Barry was on the golf course.”
This is on the incompetent hospital.
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