I am beginning to think that treating ebola patients at our current hospitals is a bad idea. Even these specialist centers are full of people..busy with many other patients and staff. Just getting the patient in and evaluating them exposes hundreds of people.
We should be building some green field care units isolated from the big hospital and minimally staffed to do the job. Minimize exposure. Much of the equipment and systems are just not needed to treat this disease. We should be using our Seabees to build these units here..get these cases out of the big hospitals.
why risk more exposure by moving her?....why?
http://time.com/3510197/ebola-cdc-hospitals/
There are four hospitals in the U.S. with special isolation units designed to contain biohazards like Ebola. In addition to Emory, they are the National Institutes of Health Clinical Center, in Bethesda, Md., a hospital at the University of Nebraska in Omaha and St. Patrick Hospital in Missoula, Mt. The facilities in Atlanta and Omaha have successfully treated Americans infected with Ebola overseas without any healthcare workers contracting the virus.
Though transporting future cases to these facilities may be prudent, they have limited beds: only 19 between them, according to CNN. Exclusively using specialized hospitals to treat Ebola is only an option
The Hospitals are finished. People will be going to every hospital with flu like symptoms not knowing if they have Ebola. We will need to develop community based support structures.
They’re getting IV’s to keep the fluids up....probably not much more.
Like the Firestone Plantation clinics, in Africa. Something other than infecting the masses, at our local hospitals.