Humboldt County wouldn’t have any hospital left at all after I got done suing them.
Prayers for the family and for their lawyers to put the hospital and doctors out of business.
I believe doctors are the second highest cause of unnecessary deaths in the US, after auto accidents.
Keep a sharp eye out for the rattlers as we reenter the wilds on these cool, sunny days out west.
3 years old is on the small side.
The whole “unknwn” thing about how big the snake, how much venom, etc and she would have been off my site to the nearest critical care hospital - muy pronto.
Sad for the family.
Too busy treating the panicdemic.
As bad as I hate to say it this happens in rattler country and Winnemucca is in the middle of it and with a population of 8000 I’m surprised they even have a hospital let alone the antivenom needed. If they do have the antivenom it has to be the right one and it’s important to know which rattler it was. They have 5 species in Nevada and one in particular is really bad. The Mojave also carries a neurotoxin and a hemotoxin in it’s bite requiring a different than just antivenom. Most rattlers just carry a hemotoxin. The respiratory problem leads me to believe it was a Mojave. If it was then CRO-FAB would have been needed and it’s not that effective with Mojave’s even though they’re one of the snakes used to make it.
But before we take an action, we must ask the child seer and beautiful Goddess, child of Athena, niece of Jesus, grand daughter of the Buddha, mother of Mohammed come back to us from yesteryear to lead, alas the girl prophet, Greta.
“They told us both they had it, that she didn’t need it.”
Beyond comprehension.
You can see the lawyers lined up around the block to represent the family. Tragic.
Where can society go to sue the parents for not being diligent enough to keep their 3 year old from getting bitten by a poisonous snake?
A Winnemucca rattlesnake roundup/barbeque is in order. Haute couture could feature rattlesnake belts, handbags, shoes. Presto...the rattlesnake population is under control.
Horrible. Sue those negligent doctors to kingdom come.
I will never forget (and this doesn’t come close to comparing) when my kid was denied stiches on his knee because, in my opinion, the doctor was ticked because I said my kid needed stitches.
I took my kid elsewhere and that doctor said absolutely he needed stitches and put them in.
Bad doctors are bad.
Another coronavirus-related death™.
When my granddaughter contracted Type I diabetes, the Emerson Hospital ER in Concord had her on glucose for several hours. When they finally figured it out, the transported by ambulance to Children’s in Boston. Sheesh. She’s okay now.
Antivenins are not without their own serious side effects - factor in the size of the child and we have a possible no win situation. If the doctors followed protocol it is just a very sad tragedy.
It’s all for the good. The Rats can now throw a new Humboldt hospital into the new 3 trillion dollar Chinese virus stimulus bill. Problem solved. /s
Ambulance crew was clueless, too. Snoring is a sign of upper airway obstruction, usually the tongue — particularly with pediatric patients. Snoring is an indication you need to do something, not just write it off and ignore it. Simple repositioning of the head and placing padding properly under the shoulders should easily remedy that.
And telling the parents to “keep stimulating her” is ridiculous. If she’s losing consciousness, that’s another indication to figure out what is going on and to do something. If a patient is supposed to be sedated, then don’t have someone try to keep the patient awake — perhaps consider another dose of the sedative. And that of course requires closely monitoring the patient’s airway — see step 1 above.
I wonder where the “doctors” were trained and from what nationality they descended. About all that practice in rural hospitals are ones from some foreign medical school with engrish as a second rangrige. Rural medicine is almost not in most places. In fact, none would be better than some of what passes for medicine in rural areas. The capitalist medical industrial complex can’t make enough money in rural areas. They certainly can’t make as much as they want to.
Once upon a time, in a public and not for profit medicine world small town hospitals managed to provide needed care at a good standard. Now, pretty much nothing.
Training doesn’t work on all people.