indigo girl

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  1. Will you work during a Pandemic?

    indigo girl replied to Goju's topic in Disaster Preparation

    Exactly, we are already working. Those of us who have not been asleep at the wheel have had some time to get used to some of the new normals of this pandemic. Those new normals? Influenza in hot...

  2. No Prior Existing Conditions but Dead Anyway

    indigo girl replied to indigo girl's topic in Disaster Preparation

    Buffalo, New York http://www.wivb.com/dpp/news/Buffalo_boy_with_H1N1_virus_has_died_20090620

  3. False Negative Swine Flu Tests

    indigo girl replied to indigo girl's topic in Disaster Preparation

    Wisconsin

  4. Pneumococcal Vaccine

    indigo girl posted a topic in Disaster Preparation

    Pneumococcal Vaccine http://scienceblogs.com/effectmeasure/2009/06/pneumococcal_vaccine.php This is important information. The CDC is now recomending this vaccination for high risk groups. If you...

  5. Bad news and good news about Novel H1N1

    indigo girl replied to oramar's topic in Disaster Preparation

    riding the influenza pandemic wave

  6. Bad news and good news about Novel H1N1

    indigo girl replied to oramar's topic in Disaster Preparation

    uk: bracing for up to 50% attack rate

  7. No Prior Existing Conditions but Dead Anyway

    indigo girl replied to indigo girl's topic in Disaster Preparation

    Oak Forest 8-year-old dies from swine flu http://www.southtownstar.com/news/1628598,061809swine.article (hat tip

  8. Swine Flu - Cruise to Nowhere

    indigo girl replied to indigo girl's topic in Disaster Preparation

    http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Swine-flu-sends-cruise-ship-apf-3138846644.html?x=0&.v=1

  9. No Prior Existing Conditions but Dead Anyway

    indigo girl replied to indigo girl's topic in Disaster Preparation

    Family member disputes claim 9-year-old boy had asthma http://www.nbcmiami.com/news/local/Swine-Flu-Victim-a-Healthy-Boy-Family.html The family sounds like they were attentive. Is it really possible...

  10. No Prior Existing Conditions but Dead Anyway

    indigo girl replied to indigo girl's topic in Disaster Preparation

    Certainly, there has to have been because people have died in the ICU from this. If they know that they are treating influenza, then they are giving Tamiflu. The real question to ask is, at what point...

  11. Risk Factors - A Wide Umbrella Under Which Many Stand

    indigo girl posted a topic in Disaster Preparation

    Risk factors for severe swine flu a wide umbrella under which many stand http://www.google.com/hostednews/canadianpress/article/ALeqM5i7tXz_Z0bUPQEDkFZBk3vhcK4Tew Don't think that you are at risk?...

  12. Risk Factors - A Wide Umbrella Under Which Many Stand

    indigo girl replied to indigo girl's topic in Disaster Preparation

    Could be. Or is it that being overweight is related to decreased lung function and metabolic syndrome? Belly fat affects lung performance http://www.hc2d.co.uk/content.php?contentId=10504 (hat tip...

  13. Watching the Pandemic Evolve in Utah

    indigo girl replied to indigo girl's topic in Disaster Preparation

    Utah health officials won't immediately report flu deaths http://www.sltrib.com/news/ci_12623865 Well, this is sure something to think about... Is anyone else feeling a little uncomfortable with this...

  14. Swine Flu Cases in ICU - Tough to Manage

    indigo girl posted a topic in Disaster Preparation

    Swine flu patients in ICU tough to manage, 'just really, really sick' http://www.google.com/hostednews/canadianpress/article/ALeqM5h9z-hUaPs0bfX3MHZJ8vxrGgh2Nw Is this article saying that most have...

  15. No Prior Existing Conditions but Dead Anyway

    indigo girl replied to indigo girl's topic in Disaster Preparation

    Don't want to raise any privacy issues here, but I have two questions for you if you would: What is your location? And, would you happen to know if the cause of death was considered to be swine flu?...

  16. Novel H1N1 Flu (Swine Flu) and Breastfeeding Your Baby

    indigo girl posted a topic in Disaster Preparation

    http://www.cdc.gov/h1n1flu/breastfeeding.htm

  17. No Prior Existing Conditions but Dead Anyway

    indigo girl replied to indigo girl's topic in Disaster Preparation

    Health officials can't explain SD swine flu death

  18. Tracking Mutations: Novel H1N1 Leading to Possible Increase in Virulence/Transmissi

    indigo girl replied to indigo girl's topic in Disaster Preparation

    http://www.flutrackers.com/forum/showpost.php?p=250657&postcount=59 Another sequence with the same change noted over at flutrackers. They do good work between their translators, and the reading of...

  19. Pandemic Awareness/Preparation

    indigo girl replied to indigo girl's topic in Disaster Preparation

    Bird Flu Still Out There in the Environment Tuva, Siberia: H5N1 discovered in dead wild birds This is a translation about migratory birds found dead in Siberia. They were subtyped H5. Because they are...

  20. Monitoring patients for lithium toxicity

    indigo girl replied to indigo girl's topic in Psychiatric

    After unit management got an email from my colleague saying it was a Risk Management issue, and that of course, he knew that they were as concerned about the patients as he was, they wrote back saying...

  21. Monitoring patients for lithium toxicity

    indigo girl posted a topic in Psychiatric

    A colleague of mine is doing a project on lithium toxicity for his clinical ladder. He found that some hospitals have protocols for when lab work must be done for this drug as there are some patients...

  22. Swine Flu Updates and Issues

    indigo girl replied to indigo girl's topic in Disaster Preparation

    http://www.dailyrecord.com/article/20090618/COMMUNITIES/906180308/1005/NEWS01/Half+of+Rockaway+Valley+eighth-grade+class+out+sick No! It can't be swine flu even though the sypmtoms are the same, and...

  23. No Prior Existing Conditions but Dead Anyway

    indigo girl replied to indigo girl's topic in Disaster Preparation

    http://www.jsonline.com/features/health/48294837.html This is tough to read, but this is how it is. It is painful to hear these stories, but it also makes it real for us. This is what has been...

  24. Risk Factors - A Wide Umbrella Under Which Many Stand

    indigo girl replied to indigo girl's topic in Disaster Preparation

    Oh, thanks a bunch, FireStarterRN! I am a night worker with a chronic sleep deprivation problem. I guess, I better start taking that melatonin a good friend gave me yesterday... Sure, sleep...

  25. Tracking Mutations: Novel H1N1 Leading to Possible Increase in Virulence/Transmissi

    indigo girl replied to indigo girl's topic in Disaster Preparation

    E627K Acquisition in Swine H1N1 Raises Pandemic Concerns http://www.recombinomics.com/News/06180901/H1N1_Swine_E627K.html I thought for sure that we would be hearing from Dr. Henry Niman about the...