Infectious disease is a different protocol from other hospital cases...In a hospital you will find every type of human injury from burns to births to broken limbs and the list goes on, each circumstance has a proper protocol that is recommended...The problem is infectious diseases require much more stringent measures to halt the spread of the disease, but these cases are all mixed in with the other cases and herein the problem lies...that just doesn't work properly....What we need is separate buildings that take only this type of infectious disease patients, like this hospital depicted in the video....
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Re: Proper Hospital Procedures Make the Difference
04/03/2020 10:46 PM
I trained in radcon as part of my background. Most of the same techniques apply to infection control with the exception that radioactive contamination couldn't be sterilized, it had to be collected and contained.
After Chernobyl I and several other engineers and radcon techs had an opportunity to review a video taken by a British film crew of Russian scientists doing a survey and evaluation of the plant attempting to locate the melted fuel. It turned into a contest to identify the errors in radcon techniques and we ended up totally flummoxed by the sheer volume of "mistakes".
As Rumsfeld said about Iraq, roughly, you go to war with what you have and make the best of it. I'm sure that by the time it was apparent, the genie was out of the bottle and everyone was a contact candidate. The care facility in Kirtland, Washington had that experience. People who were well one day developed symptoms, were ill in a day and then died within 24 hours in combination with 53 of the staff going down sick at the same time. According to one nurse who is recovered, they saw the problem after about 48 hours, asked for help from the state and got nothing.
A little like the saying that if everyone is a criminal, then no one is a criminal or if everyone is a superhero, then no one is a super hero.
Re: Proper Hospital Procedures Make the Difference
04/04/2020 12:51 AM
The video shows good techniques and equipment except they need an airlock booth to pass those small items / medicines through. It only needs to be a cubic foot with an air extraction fan and filter to maintain negative pressure and that eliminates one more contact point .
the hazmat suits they are wearing will be creating lots of body heat / fatigue for the wearer , powered filtered air supplies would be better (PAPR ) but they probably can’t get any , I have tried sourcing them for Australian hospital staff and there are NIL in the country.
most of our hospitals have only surgical masks which are ~ 20 % effective and they are being told to reuse N95 masks if they have any.
Australian police and customs recently intercepted and seized a shipment of 800,000 masks from China that were found to be defective or fake
Re: Proper Hospital Procedures Make the Difference
04/08/2020 8:27 AM
Love it: <...human injury...births...> turns life into a sexually-transmitted disease!
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Proper Hospital Procedures Make the Difference
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