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  1. 10 % of Swine Flu Fatalities in Argentina Are HCW?

    oramar replied to indigo girl's topic in Disaster Preparation

    Will keep an eye on this situation, bears

  2. Flu numbers going down?

    oramar replied to Morning-glory's topic in Disaster Preparation

    Like you said, cases are down because they have stopped counting. There is another reason, kids are out of school. Just wait till they go back. It will percolate all summer and when they kids get...

  3. Evidence of swine flu risk to pregnant women rises

    oramar replied to indigo girl's topic in Disaster Preparation

    I also have noted how quiet it has been as far as flu reporting on the news media. First of all Michael Jackson pushed everything else off the news. Secondly, our local health department made a very...

  4. Evidence of swine flu risk to pregnant women rises

    oramar replied to indigo girl's topic in Disaster Preparation

    Perhaps some obstetricians have not heard. Most official flu memos have the info buried at the bottom of paper or do not mention it at all. I personally do not remember the CDC saying a word, they...

  5. How do I answer this interview question?

    oramar replied to DeLana_RN's topic in General Nursing

    Wow, that is really good advice. If you bad mouth that evil manager it will be held against you. You will have given her a chance to hurt you again, even though many years have gone by and she has...

  6. Swine Flu in Australia/New Zealand

    oramar replied to indigo girl's topic in Disaster Preparation

    Did you see what that professor Peter Colligion said in the post before the one above, he played down the vent problem, said, "this happens every winter". I bet those poor ICU nurses would like to...

  7. The Unforgiving Arithmetic of Pandemic

    oramar replied to indigo girl's topic in Disaster Preparation

    YUP, we have been worrying about the same thing. No surge capacity in our medical system. Here is another thing that could happen, 3 or 4 very sick kids show up at the ER needing vents, one is the...

  8. The Unforgiving Arithmetic of Pandemic

    oramar replied to indigo girl's topic in Disaster Preparation

    The only thing I can think of when they say, "other drugs to reduce inflammation" is steroids and NSAIDS. Is there any

  9. Air Force Academy Outbreak

    oramar replied to doesntlookgood's topic in Disaster Preparation

    Yes Indigo, thanks to you I know that the test can be unreliable. However, this article brought that home to me in a way that other post did

  10. Air Force Academy Outbreak

    oramar replied to doesntlookgood's topic in Disaster Preparation

    I read a book about that very subject around 10 years ago. It claimed that the 1918 outbreak started in North America and was carried around the world by GIs. Up until that point consensus was that...

  11. When Stated Cause of Death Is Not in Alignment with Reality

    oramar replied to indigo girl's topic in Disaster Preparation

    This is really irksome. It bothers me that the old time GPs in 1918 would have called this what it is, a flu death. It raises the question, "Is someone applying pressure for political and economic...

  12. Air Force Academy Outbreak

    oramar replied to doesntlookgood's topic in Disaster Preparation

    The 70 that showed symptoms but tested negative makes me shake my head. I wonder if considering the kind of heavy exposure they had and their symptoms, not to mention their age, that at least a large...

  13. RSV

    oramar posted a topic in Pediatric

    Having to do a bit of reading up on RSV. Yes, the first letter is R for respiratory. However, I swear there are also GI implications in SOME cases. Do you remember the vaccine that was taken off...

  14. Evidence of swine flu risk to pregnant women rises

    oramar replied to indigo girl's topic in Disaster Preparation

    I was just thinking about that. Losing those expectant mothers and sometimes babies not to mention young healthy people, well it would be hard to work through

  15. I Feel So Dirty and Used! - An ER doc unloads his frustrations

    oramar replied to Anxious Patient's topic in Emergency

    Physicians have unlimited opportunities. You know what they say to us nurses, "if you stay and put up with it the abuse will

  16. Nurses: NorCal center lacks proper swine flu gear

    oramar replied to herring_RN's topic in Disaster Preparation

    This is just starting. We are going to find a lot of instances where there is lack of equipment and especially

  17. Nurses providing good "service"?

    oramar replied to SoundofMusic's topic in General Nursing

    Your point is well taken. The change from calling patient to customer happened during the last few years. It is not for the best. Interestingly, the former patients, now customers have never been...

  18. Ottawa Guidelines for Who Gets Access to Scarce Treatment Resources

    oramar replied to indigo girl's topic in Disaster Preparation

    Oh we were just talking about this were we not! We have to get this info to high ranking officials in the CDC and Washington DC. WE have NO NHS to making decisions like this. We are trusting a...

  19. Practical question about administrating anti flu meds.

    oramar replied to oramar's topic in Disaster Preparation

    yeessss, that is exactly the thing I was wondering about, thank you very

  20. Practical question about administrating anti flu meds.

    oramar posted a topic in Disaster Preparation

    How are they getting it into infants, small children and people with

  21. Evidence of swine flu risk to pregnant women rises

    oramar replied to indigo girl's topic in Disaster Preparation

    Oh goodness, it makes you feel so bad to hear a story like

  22. Money for preperations.

    oramar posted a topic in Disaster Preparation

    http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/157214.php

  23. Money for preperations.

    oramar replied to oramar's topic in Disaster Preparation

    Somewhere I posted or talked about an article that wrote about the Canadian NHS and how they are very alarmed. They said it they do not have enough vents for children. They said they have come to...

  24. Surge of Flu Cases in Argentina and Chile

    oramar replied to indigo girl's topic in Disaster Preparation

    Thank you so much for posting this info. Like I said, I am a news junkie but none of this is showing up on the national or local news media. It really effects they way I am

  25. What ever happened to "mother nature"?

    oramar replied to im_an_honest_1's topic in Ob/Gyn

    I know someone that is expecting at Christmas. She told me that her ob said, "I will do everything I can to make sure you are not inconvienced by being in the hospital over the holiday". I almost...