Posted on 10/13/2014 5:45:02 PM PDT by tcrlaf
They drew his blood, put tubes down his throat and wiped up his diarrhea. They analyzed his urine and wiped saliva from his lips, even after he had lost consciousness.
About 70 staff members at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital were involved in the care of Thomas Eric Duncan after he was hospitalized, including a nurse now being treated for the same Ebola virus that killed the Liberian man who was visiting Dallas, according to medical records his family provided to The Associated Press.
The nurse’s family identified her as 26-year-old Nina Pham. She decided to go to the hospital after developing a low fever.
The size of the medical team reflects the hospital’s intense effort to save Duncan’s life, but it also suggests that many other people could have been exposed to the virus during Duncan’s time in an isolation unit.
On Monday, the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said the infection of the nurse means the agency must broaden the pool of people getting close monitoring. Authorities have said they do not know how the nurse was infected, but they suspect some kind of breach in the hospital’s protocol.
The medical records given to the AP offer clues, both to what happened and who was involved, but the hospital says the CDC does not have them.
Dr. Carole Lieberman, a Beverly Hills psychiatrist who studies mental health epidemiology, said the apparent breach is a grave concern that she compared to ‘‘a puddle of gasoline that is spreading out, and the match could be lit at any time.’’
(Excerpt) Read more at bostonglobe.com ...
"that can't happen here"
"There is no reason to secure our borders, or stop flights from West Africa..."
Yup, so far it’s spreading just like it did in Africa...medical people get it first. The medical system gets overwhelmed/depleted and then it’s a wildfire.
And right now in Liberia doctors and nurses are saying "FTS!" and getting the hell outta Dodge, leaving patients to fend for themselves. And many of these fleeing health care workers are likely already infected and don't even know it yet.
Wait just a darn minute there - I thought the hospital put him outside next to the medical waste bin and left him there to dive because he was “black” - that’s what the right Reverend Jessie Jagoff said - what gives?
This bothers me because a couple of family members work in the hospital industry in DFW. In Ft Worth, but too close for comfort.
The "Boston Blobe" ??
Cheers!
I heard that number, 70, earlier and can’t believe it. How stupid are these people? You want the least number of people necessary to be in contact.
How is it the CDC does not have the medical records (the basis for crafting new protocols) and The Boston Globe does? Paging Dr. Frieden...the imbecile in charge of new protocols.
From what I know (and I could be wrong by now), Nigeria is holding up, but they’ve lost some good people.
http://www.academia.edu/8376294/HOW_TO_SURVIVE_EBOLA_VIRUS_EBOLA_SURVIVAL_STORY
I hope Jesse Jackoff observes that many of those workers risking their lives are white.
“I heard that number, 70, earlier and can’t believe it. How stupid are these people? You want the least number of people necessary to be in contact.”
As explained on another website, this represents days off, different shifts, different departments, etc...
In a Union Hospital, you aren’t going to get 24/7 coverage with just one or two people.
Do these people (CDC) even realize how that sounds? Lord, helps us...
Isn’t Texas Health Pres in Dallas a sister hospital to Texas Health Harris hospital in FW? I think many doctors go back and forth. Scary.
That’s something else that worries me. When my brother was in the ICU for a few weeks, near death last year*, one thing that bothered me was the way that nurses were rotated. It seemed that rather than keep a relative few caring for him, who would then have more consistent interaction with him, and more “hands on experience” with his case, the hospital rotated through so many we could not keep track of them. And, more often than not, if we had a question, the nurse did not know, would have to go check with someone or something, etc. The caregivers all seemed very compassionate and caring, and they did pull my brother through, but, well, it was disturbing, and frustrating for the family.
Later, when my brother was in rehab, he pretty much had the same nurses and other caregivers seeing him from day to day.
At any rate, my brother was not deadly infectious. In the case of a deadly infectious disease, having a large number of people in contact with the patient just seems nuts...
“I heard that number, 70, earlier and can’t believe it. How stupid are these people? You want the least number of people necessary to be in contact.”
They must’ve believed the administration that there was no risk.
If they have no clue what protocol was breached, how can they insure it won’t happen again?
Wasn’t there a Monty Python skit like that?
70 people paid by who?! Close the $&!# borders and quarantine Africa.
Oh the new hospitalist way is to assign “teams”, that way you spread out the risk of malpractice between 70 different people, see.
Just like it is never recognized that white people put themselves on the line for the civil rights of blacks, it won’t be recognized that white people cared for dying black people either.
This is evidence that many more people were exposed and more Ebola cases to come. Who chose Texas for this?
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