Posted on 10/10/2007 6:20:55 PM PDT by oblomov
Appalling standards of care and a catalogue of failures contributed to the deaths of 331 patients in the worst outbreak of a hospital superbug ever recorded in the NHS, a report has found.
Crowded wards, a shortage of nurses and financial problems led to 1,176 people contracting Clostridium difficile over two and half years at three hospitals in Kent.
Though the superbug was rife on the wards, managers failed to act. Isolation units were not set up, nurses were so rushed they did not have time to wash their hands and patients were left in soiled beds.
Bedpans were not decontaminated properly and beds were not cleaned as well as they should have been.
The health watchdog, the Healthcare Commission, concluded that the infection probably or definitely killed at least 90 patients and was a factor in the deaths of a further 241.
Fourteen patients who died were found to have C.diff but it did not contribute to their deaths. In total 345 people died with the infection.
The report said some patients at the hospitals run by the Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Hospital Trust should have made a full recovery from their initial illness. But they caught the bug and died. Police will determine if there are grounds for criminal charges.
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Time to put that dog to sleep. I wonder how much tax money is picked from the pockets of Englanders to pay for that particular bureaucracy.
The bad thing about being a toxicologist is that you usually end up working with stuff that is much more dangerous than the bug or cancer that you are trying to kill. In diluted quantities they are usually not too bad, but finding the correct amount is a process of trial-and-error where one little mistake can be fatal.
Is this what we have to look forward too???
Is this what we have to look forward too???
Is this what we have to look forward too???
(2) Nurses...so rushed they did not have time to wash their hands
(3) patients...left in soiled beds.
Oh boy, socialized medicine!
Reducing NHS costs by reducing patients?
I do keep them in my car after grocery shopping. You don't fool with this disease.
I read a story once where some kind of mold or fungus was found in a hospital room.
They tried everything. Pure bleach, all the modern fungicides, everything they could get their hands on - it kept coming back.
I think they sealed the room with plastic and filled it with concrete.
how exactly is a human being suppose to injest this and in what dose level when it is sold in bulk like this for livestock?
isn’t Tetracycline sold in capsule form for sick aquarium fish?
Well, I’m not gonna give any advice on it because I mention it for emergency purposes only.
A person who can figure out how to adjust a recipe downwards would easily be able to divide it into 250 or 500 mg doses.
But there are a large number of people out there who might have a life threatening reaction to it. So UNLESS YOU KNOW EXACTLY WHAT YOU ARE DOING, don’t even try it.
Me, personally, I could mix up a quart of the stuff, throw a shot of vodka in there and chug it down.
WARNING #3: Go to the drug store and get some Probiotic acidophilus tabs. Any use of antibiotics has the potential to mess up your digestive system something fierce. Acidophilus will restore the natural balance.
“Those old people are just going to die anyway...” (paraphrased) Jocelyn Elders, Clintonista.
Also remember that giving tetracycline to a pregnant woman, or child with unformed adult teeth, will give the child a permanently stained smile. Take it from me, it’s no fun.
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