Posted on 03/04/2007 6:18:03 AM PST by Dysart
The "In The Know" section at the bottom of the post listed many of the things that you can do.
I've been hospitalized once; back in early 2000 I came down with an aggressive form of double pneumonia, delirious, I was admitted and given a 50% chance of survival. After hitting me with heavy doses of antibiotics, steroids, and nebulizer treatments, I slowly walked out of that hospital eight days later.(Spent another month at home recovering.) And I was otherwise a very healthy young man. I thank God for that hospital and physicians who directed my care. Looking back, it's fortuitous that I didn't acquire another pathogen while hospitalized because I likely wouldn't have been able to fight it off.
Xray cassettes, esp the ones placed under patients during portable procedures, are in my mind one of the most filthy, germ carrying items in the hospital. Demand to have them wiped down first!
"If you need surgery, choose a surgeon with a low infection rate. Surgeons know their rate of infection for various procedures."
I wonder if public disclosure of this information should be mandated by statute?
A good surgeon will be open about that if you ask. A state mandate wouldn't matter if the patient is oblivious to the issue.
Computer keyboards in hospitals couldn't be much better.
excellent thread
No, I want a vaccine.
Research to be funded under national defense, as should be all infectious disease protection measures. War has changed.
BOOKbump
It is astonishing unless you or someone close to you has been in the system. I believe it will change now that the problems aren't merely whispered about by tiny voices, but exposed in vivid detail by the media. Sometimes they get it right.
Future reference
My heart goes out to you, this is absolutely heartbreaking.
Greetings:
I recall the days of the good old USSR when hospitals would move corpses between one another so as to conform to alloted death rates.
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I take it you're serious? That would be amusing were it not so morbid. Okay, it's still a bit amusing in a futility-of-communism-context.
When I was young I had a friend whose mother was a nurse. He said that she had told him to avoid going into the hospital if he possibly could. Its the place where all the diseases brought together.
My mother has a MRSA infection in the remaining bone of her thigh per the bone scan. The MRI was needed to determine where the pockets of infection were outside of the bone. The IV must run for 120 or more minutes according to the instructions that are included with each ball. Each of the balls so far are 175ml. Most of the time the ball flows for much more than the 120 minutes, today it took 3 1/2 hours.
A blood sample is taken once a week prior to my connecting the IV. An RN comes to draw the blood.
Thanks for the information.
This thread reminded me of Andy Stephenson.
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