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Posted on 03/01/2015 1:52:31 PM PST by CorporateStepsister
The first person infected with Ebola in the United States, nurse Nina Pham, said she was used for publicity purposes by her hospital, which also invaded her privacy and did not properly train her, the Dallas Morning News reported on Sunday.
Pham, 26, told the newspaper that chaos hit the Dallas hospital when it admitted Thomas Duncan, the first person diagnosed with Ebola in the United States after he contracted it in Liberia. Nurses were ill prepared and received little guidance on how to treat Ebola or protect themselves.
(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...
Presumably the Dallas hospital is also affiliated with a medical school (just about every large hospital is).
“Sorry, but I’ve seen the original recommendations provided by CDC for dealing with Ebola patients. Following their PPE recommendations would almost guarantee contracting the disease. Among other interesting things, it recommended taking off globes first and then removing the rest of your equipment with bare hands!...”
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Sorry, I don’t believe this...even for the idiotic Obama regime bureaucrats. This sounds more like an urban legend. Do you have a link?
I’ll try to find the link in Google cache, but CDC took down the webpage.
But I can guarantee you the story is true. In CDC’s (partial) defense, the directions were not sent directly to this hospital, they were posted on their website.
In their non-defense, they sent this poster to all hospitals in the US. A friend of mine who works at a hospital was tasked by the head nurse to take them around and give one to each nurse. He took the opportunity, on his own hook, to explain to them why the directions were not even close to being adequate.
Nope, not an urban legend.
http://news.yahoo.com/cdc-rethinking-ebola-guidelines-after-criticism-they-left-nurses-unprotected-190206817.html
http://www.scilogs.com/tenacious-telomere/ebola-protective-gear-rules-were-vague/
The hospital administrators should have immediately consulted with infection control MDs, and even I, a lowly nurse knows that you must wear full body protection with Ebola.
Found it!
Posted it on FR at the time, and got something like a dozens responses even though CDC was quite literally instructing people to do things that would get them infected. Nobody here or elsewhere seemed to care. An amazing smoking gun and everybody missed it. A true urban legend, if you will.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3216935/posts
The CDC is the guidelines that hospitals use in a case like Ebola. The guidelines were not adequate, period. The hospital is liable as their guidelines that were the CDC guidelines were not adequate but the nurse was their employee. Though morally innocent, the hospital is legally guilty.
The real problem is the CDC guidelines have become political as opposed to rational medical care and isolation and denial of entry from “Hot Zones.”
Thank you Obama, for this insanity.
See post #20. I read the Dallas Morning News article and the nurses were left to fend for themselves at the beginning, having to search on line for proper protection from exposure. She also comforted Duncan, held his hand and was on-duty when he died. She saw up front what the disease could do and was of course extremely frightened when she contacted it. She may have long term effects from the disease and never may completely recover.
http://res.dallasnews.com/interactives/nina-pham/
This shows the Dem party media complex total control by the Dem's major donors namely Trial lawyers , the vermin of the world.
The US media is a complete joke and nothing more than carefully packages lies and spin.
Jeez, Obama’s bureaucrats’ stupidity exceeds even by expectations. Wearing a single pair of gloves is moderately stupid to begin with, but then to have instructions to take that single pair of gloves off BEFORE using the hands to remove the other protective gear takes it into another dimension of stupidity.
Yup. I’m not even an expert in the field, but when my friend sent the poster to me I just couldn’t believe it.
The poster is reasonably good direction for PPE in very light duty situations.
Not adequate, to put it mildly, for one of the most deadly and infectious diseases on the planet.
I must say these nurses didn’t exactly cover themselves with glory, doing dangerous and stupid things and then saying, “That’s what the managers told us to do.”
While no doubt true, it’s not like it’s all that difficult to get information about PPE for Ebola. What, 10 seconds on Google?
Also, as stated, I’m no specialist in the area. Probably neither are you. Yet both of us immediately spotted serious flaws in the instructions.
Why didn’t the nurses? These are presumably intensive-care nurses with a lot more training in these areas than I have.
BTW, I don’t know whether these were the directions given these specific nurses. I do know these were handed out at most if not all US hospitals and were up on the CDC website labeled as PPE for Ebola for at least six weeks while the whole mess was ongoing.
If your employer, in their negligence- caused you to contract a life threatening disease that eventually can cause chronic pain and blindness- then you might change your tune.
People who had Ebola are now developing vision impairments and joint pain.
The nurses followed instructions because they were young. 26 or 27 years old.If they were a 40 year old nurse, they would have questioned authority immediately.
I wouldn’t have had this problem because as soon as they told me what was wrong with him and that I was going to treat him.........oh hell no!
Which brings up the interesting question of why they put inexperienced nurses on the most high-profile case in the nation.
Mr. Duncan had no symptoms indicating he had a contagious condition when he entered the country.
If the hospital did so poor of work, why is that in Dallas there was only 1 death and the 2 that contracted the most dire consequences lived to tell about it? Come now tell us that the hospital did not do enough! Go away just go away. How ridiculous, she should be thanking God that she is alive yet today
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