Posted on 10/10/2014 1:53:13 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
This week, Thomas Eric Duncan became the first person who contracted Ebola abroad to die in the United States. Despite receiving care at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital, Duncan’s condition was too advanced to save him even after he was administered an experimental antiviral drug. A new report published by the Associated Press, however, calls into question whether the hospital was justified when they released Duncan after his initial visit. That report suggests that the Ebola victim was heavily symptomatic on his first visit to the hospital, and that hospital staff ignored precaution that should have been taken when treating a potential Ebola carrier.
Duncan’s family recently released 1,400 pages of medical records to the AP, leading reporters to discover that Duncan had a fever which had spiked to 103 degrees while he was in hospital. Attending nurses, however, only gave him antibiotics, told to take Tylenol, and released him.
When he first showed up at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital, the man complained of abdominal pain, dizziness, a headache and decreased urination. He reported severe pain — rating it an eight on a scale of 10. Doctors gave him CT scans to rule out appendicitis, stroke and numerous other serious ailments. Ultimately, he was prescribed antibiotics and told to take Tylenol, then returned to the apartment where he was staying with a Dallas woman and three other people.
After his condition worsened, someone in the apartment called 911, and paramedics took him back to the hospital on Sept. 28. That’s when he was admitted and swiftly put in isolation.
The documents also show that a nurse recorded early in Duncan’s first hospital visit that he recently came to the U.S. from Africa, though he denied having been in contact with anyone sick.
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Question: Is this a case of medical malpractice or normal procedure?
After all, releasing a patient with a high fever is not an atypical practice if care providers believe that high temperature will be short lived.
But then, one has to err on the side of caution at a time of Ebola.
But on the other hand, the hospital might have been crowded...
Now we know what Obola meant about having more “flexibility” after the 2012 elections.
Mr, Duncan was Liberian.
He was NOT American.
With the efficiency of the DH”S” (Boston Atrocity,
where they were TOLD BEFOREHAND what was coming),
he reportedly ONLY had a temp of 103 ... and was sent home.
That had a lot to do with it.
Obamacare is all about saving cost.
Of course, who ever expected a case of Obola to show up in Dallas, Tx?
>> But then, one has to err on the side of caution at a time of Ebola.
If there’s one thing our overlawyered society is good at, it’s “erring on the side of caution” in medical practice.
Coupled with the mass hysteria the press lives to gin up, this whole ebola thing will soon become a circle-jerk of epic proportions.
I think it’s mostly that Dallas had no expectation of having a patient with Ebola arrive. Also, there was no special national warning about Africans in general, or even, to my knowledge, about Liberians. They simply weren’t looking in the right direction.
Ebola, electronic medical records, and Epic Systems
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3212729/posts
Well, we get to see both ObaMaoCare (early release) and Open Borders (a warm welcome illegals, disease carriers, etc.) in their practical application. Isn’t that wonderful? < / sarcasm >
As evidenced by the various tests that the hospital gave Mr. Duncan, it doesn't surprise me that even medical experts, experts who had possibly never seen an ebola victim, understandably did not initially pinpoint Mr. Duncan's problem.
I pray that most Dims are waking up and realizing that our only/last chance to stop Ebola country flights - and enterovirus infected Central Americans - is to vote Republican in November.
We’ll all be holding our nose, to vote for certain candidates, but this is our last chance to stop this madness.
> Question: Is this a case of medical malpractice or normal procedure?
Normal procedure, they checked and he had no insurance.
In this case, it may be malpractice. The CDC issued guidelines that state that any patient who has been in an Ebola affected area needs to be isolated. The hospital did not act in accordance with CDC guidelines.
The only thing I see wrong with the guidelines is that they should specify previous contact with a sick person, and not previous contact with an Ebola patient. The family of the woman who died, when Mr. Duncan was helping take her to the hospital, thought she had malaria (and the symptoms of malaria and Ebola are similar). So, of course, he would have denied having contact with an Ebola patient.
Death is the ultimate cost containment.
“I pray that most Dims are waking up and realizing that our only/last chance to stop Ebola country flights - and enterovirus infected Central Americans - is to vote Republican in November.”
Actually, since the Republicans are quite lacking in the backbone department, and it is unlikely that they could force him to do anything even with control of Congress, there seems to me to only be hope from another quarter:
MEMORANDUM
TO: Vladimir Putin, President, the Russian Republic
FROM: Sane people everywhere
DATE: As soon as you read this
RE: The spread of Ebola
FACTS:
1. Ebola is a communicable disease that, in its current variant, is fatal approximately 70% of the time, and causes immense suffering.
2. There is no cure (or at least none available to more than a few dozen people), and no vaccine. Additionally, the disease mutates very rapidly, so even if scientists are able to develop a cure or a vaccine, the disease may by then have already mutated to a more easily communicable form. Actually, the more people who are infected, the greater chance of such a mutation.
3. Additionally, the more people that are infected outside of West Africa, the greater chance that a second or third “natural reservoir” of the disease will become established, making it virtually impossible to control future outbreaks.
4. People from the 3 nations where this nascent pandemic originated are traveling to various places around the globe, and cases have occurred in a variety of places around the world including the United States and Europe.
5. The President of the United States, Barack Obama, has repeatedly refused to take any action to stop people who may be infected with Ebola from traveling via air.
ISSUE:
What can be done to stop the spread of this disease before it becomes incapable of being managed?
ANALYSIS:
1. Since the disease is effectively incurable, and since there is no vaccine, the best hope of minimizing the harm created by this disease and minimizing the chance that it will become a pandemic that could literally kill half or more of the human race, lies in containing the disease to its points of origin in Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea.
2. Since President Obama is, apparently, unwilling to do anything of substance to halt air traffic originating from the host nations of this Ebola outbreak, something else must be done by some other nation that is capable of effectively stopping the above-mentioned air travel.
3. The Russian Republic is a nation of vast resources, including vast military resources.
4. You are in charge of the armed forces of the Russian Republic.
CONCLUSION/RECCOMENDATION:
1. Since Ebola is a communicable, highly-lethal and effectively incurable disease, the spread of this disease must be stopped as soon as is practical in order to spare the world a pandemic that could literally kill hundreds of millions or billions of people.
2. Since the United States has abdicated responsibility or initiative in attempting to accomplish the halt of the spread of this disease, some other nation must do so to avoid an unspeakable tragedy.
3. Since the Russian Republic possesses enormous military resources, and since you are in charge of those resources, and since you have displayed tremendous decisiveness over the years of your leadership, it is the conclusion of all sane people everywhere that you may be our only hope. Therefore, and with great humility and respect, we hereby ask you to order the armed forces of the Russian Republic to destroy every airport in the nations of Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea, and to do so without delay.
My initial reaction was one of shock. Unless this guy lied that he hadn’t traveled abroad, which wouldn’t surprise me, then I don’t see how any nurse could have not communicated that ASAP. I sure as hell would have . . .if for nothing else, then “get this guy away from me!”
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