Posted on 01/22/2006 9:01:44 AM PST by WestTexasWend
Someone needs to get O'Reilly on this.
Holy smokes.
Not nearly enough information in this article.
Rash, stomach pains, hysterectomy?
Gangrene enough to amputate all limbs??
It's tragic no matter what the cause. They need to find out where the infection came from but you can be sure that lawyers will get in the way to prevent an investigation of the hospital.
She can't kick over this one.
Picture and story that says she wasn't told she would be amputated (at least that's the take I got).
http://www.wftv.com/news/6253589/detail.html
Sounds like drug resistant staph. A danger in hospitals. According to another story it can kill one in four. This article is way short on information.
Here is my completely uneducated theory; while giving birth, an unsterile item (doc hand or instrument), was used. That is why she had to have a hysterectomy.
I hate lawsuits, but this time, I think she would be justified to sue for a billion gillion dollars.
She is a beautiful woman, and they have ruined her. Beyond tragic.
What is the difference between this and gangrene?
The "flesh eating bacteria" here is Group A Streptococcus or Streptococcus Pyogenes that can cause Impetigo, Strep throat or the more serious toxic shock syndrome, or necrotizing fasciitis (from which it gets the name "flesh eating"). Gangrene simply means death of tissue or necrosis. With a Strep infection such as this, the tissues can die leading to Gangrene. Gas Gangrene means dead tissue associated with a different bacterial infection coming from Clostridium which is totally different from Strep.
Extract:
"Strictly speaking, an epidemic is defined as an increase in the prevalence of disease over a baseline endemic rate. In this context, we are, in fact, experiencing an epidemic of severe invasive GAS infections; however, few concrete prospective population-based data support this notion. Estimates suggest that the incidence of these infections is 10 to 20 cases/ 100,000 population. Thus, the stimulus for such public interest has not been the incidence of the syndrome, but more likely, the dramatic nature of these infections."
Hospitals are where all those infected with such things gather.
It's up to the infection control folks to check the hospital
for such things...
If you want to get sick a hospital is a great place to do just that,and an urban hospital has got to be the most dangerous kind.
imo
That's considered a nosocomial infection, isn't it? Aren't hospitals supposed to keep track of those? Are they required to tell patients admitted about them? Or is it up to a patient to ask?
This is worrisome. BTTT!
It would seem that we are not getting a lot of accurate info on this.
Cha-ching!
"resistant to antibiotics"-- A direct result of misuse of antibiotics which can be bought over the counter just across the border. No prescription needed.
ORHS is less than five miles from me, and we've visited their ER many times.
My husband and I read about this woman in the paper yesterday, and her photo horrified my daughter. She kept pointing at the woman's amputated arm and saying, "Mommy hurt! That mommy's hurt!"
Actually the flesh eating bacteria is a particularly virulent strep infection. It gives you a condition called necrotizing fasciitis, where the infection spreads under the skin along muscles
Resistant staph is also a problem, but produces a different clinical syndrome.
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