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Dallas hospital that treated three Ebola patients had machine that can detect disease in just min.
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| October 17, 2014
| MICHAEL ZENNIE
Posted on 10/17/2014 8:49:25 AM PDT by maggief
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Full title: Dallas hospital that treated three Ebola patients had machine that can detect disease in just minutes ...but couldn't use it because it wasn't FDA approved
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posted on
10/17/2014 8:49:25 AM PDT
by
maggief
To: maggief
- but doctors were barred from using it because of federal regulations
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posted on
10/17/2014 8:51:46 AM PDT
by
ColdOne
(I miss my poochie... Tasha 2000~3/14/11)
To: maggief
90% accuracy?
Considering that the current outbreak started form a single person being infected in Africa, I’d say that success rate stinks.
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posted on
10/17/2014 8:52:07 AM PDT
by
chris37
(heartless)
To: maggief
....and does our troops and national guard sent to Africa to “fight Ebola” have this device......enquiring minds seek to know.
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posted on
10/17/2014 8:52:13 AM PDT
by
spokeshave
(He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our people,)
To: maggief
http://www.defenseone.com/threats/2014/10/dallas-hospital-had-ebola-screening-machine-military-using-africa/96713/
BioFire Diagnostics, a Utah-based firm that produces disease detection technology, confirmed that the Dallas Presbyterian Hospital did in fact have one of the machines (possibly for as long as two years) sitting on the shelf when Duncan came in.
But unless hospitals agree to use the machine specifically for research purposes, rather than actually diagnosing patients with Ebola, they cant look for Ebola in samples.
The FDA rules in what are called research use only machines are far more lax than for machines that must provide clinical diagnosis. According to representatives from BioFire, even after the FDA approved the use of the machine for Ebola screening and allowed workers at the hospital to acquire the proper kit for Ebola testing, a 10-20 day validation procedure would kick in before they could change the machines use from diagnostics to research and the results would have to go to the Centers for Disease Control for confirmation.
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posted on
10/17/2014 8:52:25 AM PDT
by
maggief
To: maggief
doctors were barred from using it because of federal regulations. There is literally NOTHING that can't be screwed up and made worse by federal bureaucrats.
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posted on
10/17/2014 8:52:31 AM PDT
by
Blood of Tyrants
(The cure has become worse than the disease. Support an end to the WOD now.)
To: ColdOne
That explains why we sent these to Africa and have to wait hours or days here. To heck with Africa! These should be spread about the country.
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posted on
10/17/2014 8:52:59 AM PDT
by
PghBaldy
(12/14 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15 - 1030am - Obama's advance team scouts photo-op locations.)
To: chris37
A positive confirmation and quarantine almost immediately will reduce the odds of it spreading.
This is another case of government being so big that all the arms interfere with each other.
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posted on
10/17/2014 8:53:17 AM PDT
by
tbw2
To: maggief
“The Dallas hospital that sent home Thomas Eric Duncan the first time he showed up at the emergency room has a machine that could have detected Ebola in less than an hour - but doctors were barred from using it because of federal regulations.”
Sounds like some great civil law suits by any HCW worker in that Dallas Hospital who was infected with Ebola or suffer severe mental depression or PTSD from being exposed.
So who banned this test, CDC or FDA?
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posted on
10/17/2014 8:53:23 AM PDT
by
Grampa Dave
(I, Barrack E Obolabama support the left wing's war on Ebola. Fox News & Republicans will fight me.)
To: WildHighlander57; LucyT; penelopesire; SE Mom; thouworm
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posted on
10/17/2014 8:53:57 AM PDT
by
maggief
To: tbw2
And a missed hit is the start of an epidemic.
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posted on
10/17/2014 8:54:33 AM PDT
by
chris37
(heartless)
To: maggief
"...but doctors were barred from using it because of federal regulations."What and where are those regulations?
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posted on
10/17/2014 8:54:38 AM PDT
by
yoe
To: Grampa Dave
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posted on
10/17/2014 8:54:46 AM PDT
by
maggief
To: ColdOne
Probably could somehow hurt an endangered flea.
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posted on
10/17/2014 8:56:43 AM PDT
by
TurboZamboni
(Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.-JFK)
To: maggief
I’m shocked, just shocked.
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posted on
10/17/2014 8:56:58 AM PDT
by
Enterprise
("Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities." Voltaire)
To: maggief
I’m glad the British media is willing to do our media’s job.
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posted on
10/17/2014 8:58:04 AM PDT
by
mrsmith
(Dumb sluts: Lifeblood of the Media, Backbone of the Democrat Party!)
To: maggief; ColdOne
My God.
This needs to be shouted so every one knows.
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posted on
10/17/2014 8:58:54 AM PDT
by
Sir Napsalot
(Pravda + Useful Idiots = CCCP; JournOList + Useful Idiots = DopeyChangey!)
To: Grampa Dave
Federal Regulations.......... Either way, 0 will blame the hospital.
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posted on
10/17/2014 8:59:16 AM PDT
by
b4its2late
(A Liberal is a person who will give away everything he doesn't own.)
To: ColdOne
What we need is another political hack attorney to oversee this fiasco. Oh, wait ...
:o/
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posted on
10/17/2014 8:59:21 AM PDT
by
maggief
To: maggief
If the hospital’s medical director had had any balls, he would have said screw the FDA...roll out that machine and crank it up!
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posted on
10/17/2014 9:00:19 AM PDT
by
Timber Rattler
(Just say NO! to RINOS and the GOP-E)
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