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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...

  16. Bad Eyesight

    cactus wren replied to military wife's topic in General Nursing

    Whee !!! I just graduated to trifocals...ain`t getting older grand ? You`ll be just fine

  17. ICU vs PICU Novice Question

    cactus wren replied to SirJohnny's topic in General Nursing

    PICU and NICU...scarry places !!! Although I have done brief ...very,very brief...with both. Like coming in for shift, and seeing OHIO unit in my isolatio room... My first question always was.." And...

  18. How do you convince administration and or doctors?

    cactus wren replied to deespoohbear's topic in Rural

    My last full time job( am happily doing agency for now) was at rural place, and this came up quite frequently with one doc. He thinks he can fix everything....last fight nurses had with him cincerned...

  19. Knee pain, Hip pain, Back pain.....HELP

    cactus wren replied to Flynurse's topic in General Nursing

    Have you gained a few pounds in the last year? I have noticed that as little as 5 pounds affects how good or bad my feet feel aftewr 12 hours.And, beleive me, I could stand to loose alot more than...

  20. Nursing Retention/Award Ideas

    cactus wren replied to Colorado1's topic in General Nursing

    Better staffing.............................and more money is never refused......but given the choice I`d rather have safe

  21. Anxiety and low self-esteem

    cactus wren replied to IloveSnoopy's topic in General Nursing

    Stop beating yourself up !! Everyone has days when you can`t hit a vein....or a garden hose for that matter... ..But then the next day you get one even the CRNA`s couldn`t get....As for lung sounds,...

  22. Question about IV therapy....

    cactus wren replied to deespoohbear's topic in General Nursing

    That`s what I was taught,too...that`s why you`re supposed to start low, and work up...What was wrong with other arm?? I would of just started a new iv there...would of left SL in, just"in

  23. For those of you that are a nurse and those of you who call yourself a nurse!!

    cactus wren replied to StaceRacer1's topic in General Nursing

    Thanks Kare, I didn`t notice that fact, and was wondering how I missed the thread the first poster was responding

  24. Blocking beds when understaffed

    cactus wren replied to Nurse Ratched's topic in General Nursing

    Small hospital I used to work at would close for admissions at times if not enough staff...always caused the docs to go ballistic....and I know that the big guys in Phoenix do at times...because of...

  25. Faking It

    cactus wren replied to l.rae's topic in General Nursing

    WOW !! L.rae...did he make it??/I have never seen tetnus,either and agree...gut feelings are often right on the