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To: Carry_Okie

That’s basic isolation that I learned in nursing school, what you’d do for MRSA or C-diff, plus a face mask.

Not nearly good enough for Ebola.

As you said, no leg protection, no booties. Gear is not impermeable enough to be rinsed with a chlorine solution.

Health care personnel dealing with Ebola need full biohazard gear. Better yet, an articulating suit.

I wonder at what point you cut your losses - what fraction of Ebola patients in organ or respiratory failure can be saved? If it’s progressed that far, maybe cold calculation says let them go rather than assume the risk of infecting more people.


11 posted on 10/14/2014 6:12:16 PM PDT by heartwood
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To: heartwood
what fraction of Ebola patients in organ or respiratory failure can be saved?

The answer is basically zero.

The Doctors in Africa have repeatedly noted that once the uncontrollable bleeding starts, the patients die.

There is no point in continuing treatment once this stage has been reached, and the risk of infecting the caregivers jumps with each additional hour.

Time to let 'em go.

46 posted on 10/14/2014 7:06:31 PM PDT by flamberge (What next?)
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