cactus wren

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1. ECMO - Will We Have Sufficient Capacity for the Fall/Winter Flu Season?

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

   update on the gal from Scotland. A true miracle of modern, high-tech, medicine: UK: Swine flu woman gives birth to boy (UKPA) - 14 minutes ago...

2. Pandemic Awareness/Preparation

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

   The 1918 flu certainly was H1N1, Dr. Webster and others have reconstructed the virus. Yup, swine flun is less deadly. But............ It is less deadly with early treatment with Tami, vents, and...

3. Pandemic News/Awareness.

   cactus wren replied to indigo girl's topic in General Nursing

   Goju, you beat me to it.:yelclap: Please, all you concerned nurses go to HHS site and voice concerns or

4. Pandemic News/Awareness.

   cactus wren replied to indigo girl's topic in General Nursing

   Anything around 1918 or greater will shut down many of our hospitals in a few weeks. It`s not just PPEs, and understaffed,overworked HCW, either. Where are the needed supplies going to come from?...

5. Pandemic News/Awareness.

   cactus wren replied to indigo girl's topic in General Nursing

   I came across this document and am not sure if it has been posted here already.. Some of the recommendations I don't *think* I have seen before... was from fall 2006 I believe. U of Pittsburg Medical...

6. Pandemic News/Awareness.

   cactus wren replied to indigo girl's topic in General Nursing

   Glad to see that were sent to NAMRU3. That means that we`ll get the sequences fairly rapidly. Will be interesting to see of they resemble Egypts or

7. Pandemic News/Awareness.

   cactus wren replied to indigo girl's topic in General Nursing

   CRNI Our CDC is in shambles due to poor management. They are actually pretty worthless when it comes to PF info.Read their own blog( oops,sorry my bad). Our Naval labs are doing heroic work on...

8. Pandemic News/Awareness.

   cactus wren replied to indigo girl's topic in General Nursing

   Indigo, I`d save my breathe for the more important goal of trying to alert our nursing breathern about the probability of a PanFlu Year. Some folks won`t believe it can happen until they see the...

9. Pandemic News/Awareness.

   cactus wren replied to indigo girl's topic in General Nursing

   CRNI-ICU20 I for one am very glad that all these flu bloggers exist. I have tried toggletext, it`s tough. have you tried it? It`s a program that allows one to translate from Indonesian to english or...

10. Pandemic News/Awareness.

    cactus wren replied to indigo girl's topic in General Nursing

    Swine apparently did not have flu until after 1918. So, it seems that us humans gave it to them. As far as appropriate PPEs, remember Totonto during the SARS outbreak> A friend actually worked...

11. Disaster/Pandemic Community Involvement and Coping

    cactus wren replied to Florida1's topic in General Nursing

    How many of your friends and neighbors even have 2 weeks of food and water stered? Not many,I bet.And do you have supplies for your family? At the gov. site for panflu, they reccommend having at...

12. Pandemic News/Awareness.

    cactus wren replied to indigo girl's topic in General Nursing

    Nigeria is now testing 11 more people for HN51. They report that these folks have had contact with those ones that died. Scary ! Have any of you thought about where that IV bag you just hung was...

13. Pandemic News/Awareness.

    cactus wren replied to indigo girl's topic in General Nursing

    Why should nurses and all HCW be concerned about Panflu ? 60% of those people whi have contracted it have died despite recieving ICU care. We have nowhere near enough ICU beds or even MS beds to...

14. 6 Alabama kids were on life support with flu

    cactus wren replied to indigo girl's topic in General Nursing

    I find this kinda interesting; Authorities aren't releasing the boy's name. The health department has advised those who came in contact with the boy to see their doctors. Now we know where that...

15. Nurses, do you routinely do beds and baths?

    cactus wren replied to Rapheal's topic in General Nursing

    Actually, that is one reason I work ICU. I feel that total patient care is important for me, at least. Maybe it`s from the many years I was a NA( no C when I was an aide). I have friends who work...