Sounds like something from SNL's "The Anal-Retentive Chef."
Posted on 10/16/2014 9:02:53 AM PDT by Citizen Zed
Day 1: How to draw blood from a suspected Ebola patient so you can test for the disease. Make sure you have all the materials you'll need before you put on your protective suit. Always work in pairs. Assess the patient's ability to sit still. Dispose of the syringe immediately. Wash your gloved hands under 0.5% chlorine solution. Label and spray. Drop the tube in a bag. Bag it again, spray it again. Spray the outside of the second bag. Walk to the laboratory area of the hospital. Just before you hand off the bag, spray it one more time. Bag it again for safety's sake.
(Excerpt) Read more at m.capeandislands.org ...
To self: Check out bag and spray stock bargains.
Sounds like something from SNL's "The Anal-Retentive Chef."
Why a syringe and not a vacutainer where there is less chance of being stuck with a needle. All the spraying of the bag and the blood tube and then the poor lab tech has to pop the top anyway to do a manual platelet or wbc count because the patient is neutropenic. Don’t get me started on urine and stool examinations.
Ya had to post this at lunch? really? lol
clipboard boy might want to go through this training.
First, the source is NPR. That’s 90 % of the problem, that explains the poor writing.
Because these are procedures that evolved in the field hospitals of West Africa by MSF. Their shortage of supplies is staggering and they’re making do with what they have.
I’m sure they’d love a store of fresh vacutainers and lots of other things.
I am so screwed.
You’re right; they need logistical support over there.
EBOLA is a major NBC (nuclear, biological, and chemical) continuation of events and must be treated as a war particularly against the B, by every nation.
The USA is very late at getting the logistical theater of operations going along the west coast of Africa. Whether or not “boots are on the ground” as direct attendants of people in need, boots must be on the ground, handling the logistical needs *for* the locals and medical people who are doing the work.
IOW, the locals and medical people *there* at the front lines ... need to look over their shoulders and see a ready supply of fresh water, protective gear, treatment of protective gear, and thoroughly efficient cremation plants -— because no person, nor pet, nor animal, nor associated clothing of EBOLA victims deceased, should go anywhere but straight to these cremation plants.
It’s war, and you have to kill EBOLA before it kills you. EBOLA cannot be left laying around in dead animals, dead people, dead anything - buried, because of “nice thoughts” and “wishful thinking.” BECAUSE, EBOLA comes back from the dead -— which is why we’re having the problem, again. We must arrange things so that EBOLA cannot be dug up, again.
ISIL / ISIS will try to.
bttt
Dr. Bob Garry, a scientist at Tulane University, is working harder than ever to get one possible solution—a rapid diagnostic test approved.[Regarding the present, lengthy waiting for symptoms to show ... and the current tests]
It’s the breakdown in care caused by delay that Garry and his team are hoping to fix. The scientists began working in West Africa roughly 10 years ago on another fever called Lassa. Over the course of a few years, they developed a rapid diagnostic test that allowed doctors to give patients a diagnosis on the spot. When the first cases of Ebola began popping up in West Africa, Garry and his team began “fortifying” existing labs they had in the area. In the creation of the Lassa fever test strips, they had also made a similar, but separate, Ebola test. But without any presence of Ebola in the region until this year, they were unable to test them until now.
The value of the rapid diagnostic test lies in its simplicity. It consists of a small white lancet, which requires just a small drop of blood. In 15 minutes or less, a positive or negative line will appear on the test, indicating Ebola positive or negative. "They work like pregnancy tests except its blood," says Garry.
“What our tests would permit one to do is to basically see if a person has Ebola on the spot,” Garry tells me. “They are not perhaps as sensitive as a PCR. That’s a very sophisticated test, but they don’t really have to be. What we’re most interested in doing is coming out with a test that could detect when someone is infectious, immediately.”
CMX-001 is a compound called a nucleotide analog. Its molecules behave enough like those that form the genetic material (nucleotides) of viruses such as Ebola that the microbes incorporate it into their DNA or RNA, a sister molecule.But CMX-001 is different enough that, once incorporated, it prevent a virus's genetic material from replicating. That stops the virus from spreading throughout the body.
[10/07/2014] Go Inside San Diego Lab Working to Cure Ebola Virus
[Paraphrasing ...] A La Jolla lab is on the front lines of the fight against the Ebola Virus. Dr. Erica Ollmann Saphire is part of the [Scripps La Jolla] team spanning 25 labs across the globe that is making images of how the virus works. [The La Jolla team's] work has led to a medicine taken [so far] by two Americans infected with Ebola.[08/04/2014] The Sorrento Valley lab, Mapp Biopharmaceutical uses images created at Scripps [La Jolla] to come up with the experimental medicine called Z-Mapp.
In the video of Dr. Erica Ollmann Saphire, she explains the basic working of Z-Mapp while holding up a molecular model. The Blue antibody at the top of the model, tags the Ebola virus for destruction by the immune system. The Green antibody and the Yellow antibody neutralize the Ebola virus infection. These two antibodies lock the virus' machinery together so the machinery (see above) cannot unravel and drive into a cell.
[10/16/2014] Israeli Company Ready To Mass Produce Ebola Vaccine
"an Israeli biotech company named Protalix is ready to replenish supplies of the experimental Ebola vaccine, ZMapp"
Handy wipes for use of public facilities: Clorox Bleach Germicidal Wipes
Well, stopping a seizure should be a higher priority than a blood draw.
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