Posted on 10/18/2021 4:06:22 PM PDT by UMCRevMom@aol.com
A 17-year-old girl was abused by hospital staff and had a plastic bag placed over her head as what the staff and administrators called "standard procedure" in a Texas medical center.
https://tv.gab.com/channel/realstewpeters/view/plastic-bag-put-over-teen-covid-6165e74f380c8a9e03ccd34c?fbclid=IwAR3Fra6VMwXAh3kzN__GiFFEzv4zdsvhP76Em_d2wDhAHIeaHaWeEtOhTUA
Maybe the hospital has run out of critical supplies such as plastic canopies / hoods to transport arrivals to the COVID ward. Maybe the alternative was to leave the young patient in the intake area of the hospital for a period of time infecting many others.
This doesn't seem like a terrible stop-gap measure to me. It sounds like a good emergency improvisation.
Wait until they see 1 Plastic Bag on the bill for $3,000.00.
Those aren’t plastic bags, are they. They’re oxygen tents. Do you see that kid getting any oxygen? Nope! They even had a useless mask on her......in a plastic bag.....with breathing issues, for 30 minutes, with NO OXYGEN.
She has very little room between her face and the plastic bag. Not at all like an oxygen tent. There is no justification for this.
"I bet if I ask my doctor friends here, they would all comdemn any such action"
People here truly are going nutz :P
I believe that is the hospital where I was born... explains what happened to me ;^)
(I hope the girl turned out ok)
That’s entirely appropriate for the most deadly disease to ever spread across the planet.
You forgot the sarcasm tag...
Also, who took that picture and published it to the internet? That seems like a HIPAA Privacy Violation to me.
In the U.S. we haven’t used Canopies for many decades.
Some European countries still used them.
Based only on pictures I saw from a Covid ward in Italy I saw some canopies being used.
There are ways of dealing with people that are combative for any number of reasons.
Placing a plastic bag over someone’s head is idiotic and shows the lack of ability to work with people, which is part of the job.
A portable O2 tank with an O2 mask would have prevented this story.
There is a picture of it at the link
There is a picture of it at the link
There is a picture of it at the link
Stop trying to manufacture a rationalization for the inexcusable
BS
Stop trying to manufacture excuses to deflect and distract away from the improper conduct for the hospital staff
All said and done but it appears her hands/arms aren’t tied
down such that she couldn’t have removed the bag is she felt
it necessary................ She also has a blue nose/mouth mask on.
Snip...........
Mr. Tippin said the hospital will use clear, plastic drapes to prevent the spread of COVID-19 when transporting patients in certain situations, including if the patient cannot tolerate a mask or refuses to keep it on. Draped patients are never left unattended and are already receiving oxygen or breathing assistance. Patients or guardians also have the right to refuse the protection measure, he said.
“improper conduct for the hospital staff”
The definition of improper conduct is in the Violation of Privacy Standards here. You can’t take a picture of a patient and publish it to the internet. That’s a violation that’s got Teeth and is reportable to the OCR!
Was the plastic bag meant to concentrate the oxygen she was receiving, or to prevent oxygen from reaching her?
We screen suspected 19 pt's outside the ER....in their cars...If they are NOT critical.
Once their 19 test comes in POS...we take them around..the Hosp into a different door...that is closed off to the rest of the Hosp.
We don't have NEG P rooms...but do have "air scrubbers".....
It's not the best system....but we don't use plastic bags over the heads of people.
When I work there...I wear a simple mask and a N-95 over that....
IMO...that's what this Hosp. should have done.
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