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03-21-2020, 09:54 AM | #8371 | |
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03-21-2020, 09:56 AM | #8372 | |
Stay positive, don't give up
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03-21-2020, 09:57 AM | #8373 |
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03-21-2020, 09:57 AM | #8374 |
In Search of a Life
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03-21-2020, 09:57 AM | #8375 |
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I got into a spat with Sams club in 2001 and cancelled my membership. I just assumed Costco was the same so I didn’t go there either. Since then I haven’t had a need to buy anything in bulk so I never tried them out.
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03-21-2020, 10:00 AM | #8376 | |
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We're in such early stages of this we just don't know alot yet. |
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03-21-2020, 10:00 AM | #8377 |
In Search of a Life
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You don't need to test everyone, but doing random testing of asymptomatic people would give you some good data.
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03-21-2020, 10:05 AM | #8378 |
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I don't disagree but we can't do it. We don't test everyone who has or thinks they have or might have the flu. Yet we estimate millions get it each year.
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03-21-2020, 10:06 AM | #8379 |
Now you've pissed me off!
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I think it's more a function of introduction and density. We know it was introduced into that nursing home in Washington (a place with at-risk people in a densely populated environment) and that it ravaged it. We can see what is happening in New York. Many countries in the EU are densely populated and it's spreading at exponential rates.
We also can't assume that a lack of symptoms right now means a lack of cases, given a variable incubation period of days to weeks. There is just too little that we know right now, unfortunately. The only thing I can compare it to is AIDS. By the time the first cases were identified, 250,000 people already had HIV. Although I think the initial response to AIDS was a national failure, there was also no way that it was going to be stopped. Fortunately, HIV was much harder to transmit. Unfortunately, its long latency period meant that people were infected for years while transmitting the virus to others because they were largely asymptomatic. We need to try and learn from that. Asymptomatic carriers will spread SARS-CoV-2. Even if they aren't affected or a high-risk group, they're a risk to everyone they come in contact with, and because they're asymptomatic, we don't know who they are. That's why we need to limit interaction as much as possible. Last edited by 'Hamas' Jenkins; 03-21-2020 at 10:13 AM.. |
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03-21-2020, 10:07 AM | #8380 | |
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Doctor says change the vent to "this" number. I'm sure you can show someone how to change that setting relatively easy. Turn a dial or put in a new number in the LED display. That part could obviously be monitored remotely. but the reason you have RT's running vents and not RN's is the specialty to pick up on something before it sends the patient down a bad path. One example: Doctors are busy. They miss the dietitian increased the patients caloric intake. ABG's come back with increased Co2. Doc is not aware of the incresed caloric intake, freaks out and starts ordering "stuff" that will send the patient down a really bad path. But, if you see what the dietitian ordered all we need to do is to increase the frequencies of breaths per minute to blow off the dangerous Co2 created by the increase in calories. I caught that at least once a week. They are already on a vent, Hanging on to life very precariously. Not going to take much to send them into organ failure. That was in "normal" times. In a crisis.... Yikes. Remote we would not be able to hear breath sounds on the lungs as the vent pushes the air in and out. Sure, nurses and doctors listen to breath sounds but we are the experts. Thats our bread and butter. We can pick up on the smallest change in the lungs before most. How did the breath sounds change after suctioning? Start the intervention going earlier to avoid that bad outcome. It is a crisis. We would just hope everyone is paying attention to the chart changes, The RN's giving more detailed breath sounds. Ability to communicate with the RN to double check an area of the lungs etc. so I guess in crisis, yes, its doable. |
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03-21-2020, 10:08 AM | #8381 |
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****. Now ThaVirus is in this thread. QUARANTINE! QUARANTINE!
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03-21-2020, 10:09 AM | #8382 | |
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03-21-2020, 10:10 AM | #8383 |
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NY is a ****ing hot bed.....
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03-21-2020, 10:10 AM | #8384 | ||
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Look there's a reason everything is shut down and it isn't because this Virus is simply the flu. That doesn't mean everyone should panic but it's best to isolate at this time so our hospitals are not overun and this virus doesn't continue to spread. |
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03-21-2020, 10:11 AM | #8385 |
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Right now NY is accountable for 50% of all cases in the US
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