Posted on 10/18/2014 6:51:45 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
The Dallas hospital that treated Thomas Eric Duncan had a version of the Ebola-screening device used by the U.S. military in West Africa sitting on a shelf, but FDA guidelines prohibited staff from using it on the patient.
A $39,000 machine called FilmArray was available to the Dallas Presbyterian Hospital when Duncan came in with a fever. The device has a high success rate for detecting Ebola in less than one hour, but sat idly because current federal guidelines prevented the hospital from obtaining a specific “kit” needed for screening, the military website Defense One reported Thursday.
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Smiles. Now grown way the heck up daughter of a Career Navy dad here ;) Thank you for your service FRiend, and if you are still practicing, may God keep watch over you in these frightening times.
Tatt
We are the Government and we are here to f**k everything up.
Now, shut up and pay your taxes!
Ain’t that the truth!
God bless ya FRiend.
Tatt
Kill the FDA.
Maybe the new hack “czar” will override the FDA?
I can come up with a couple of F-D-A acronymns that would get me banned.
Thank you, I am still there.
Our section started practicing isolation techniques training, and planning on how we will handle a pt if he/she comes in with EHF Sx. We were about a week ahead of the rest of the hospital, but we are gearing up and preparing for that eventuality.
Thank you for your support, it is really appreciated by all of us.
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In short, current FDA guidelines limit the machines to “research use only,” the website reported. Hospitals that do receive FDA approval to use the devices to diagnose patients must then wait up to 20 days before using it in such a capacity, the website reported.
The FDA didn’t immediately respond to Defense One’s request for comment.
f#$%!&g Dumb a%##s comes to my mind. I am sure it’s on your list as well.
Had Texas Presbyterian been run by a Conservative as opposed to the DemonRAT donating CEO, the mishandling of the murderous, disease spreading Duncan would have been handled properly. Burdensome regulations imposed by the central government tied the hands of skilled health professionals. The paperwork flood caused by hussiencare also set the wheel in motion for the Obala outbreak in America.
For the record, I am not calling for actually killing people. We are a nation of laws. Sadly, the ruling class makes and controls the laws and has nothing to fear, save our fear. Hence their lies.
Sounds like Texas Ebola Presbyterian is not a well-managed institution.
The different microbe detection ‘cassettes’ can identify various things. It’s probably just the ebola cassette that’s not FDA approved.
Maybe the govt. does NOT want to stop Ebola, because Ebola takes our minds off everything else.
Maybe the government just does not care if Americans are happy, healthy and free anymore. Obola is just another brick in the wall.
The FDA regs are probably designed to prevent Ebola from a potential leak into the public domain...oh, wait...
I think a little (UN)civil disobedience is going to become popular. Sign a legal waiver and use the damned thing. Stuff this “government” of liberals trying to kill us! What’s better, jail time or death by Ebola? Time for some choices and some courage.
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