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    Coronavirus (COVID-19): We Want to Hear from You

    RedWeasel replied to tnbutterfly - Mary's topic in Disaster Preparation

    They have downgraded our precautions saying a paper gown and paper mask is enough. (See link in previous post). I don’t know what I would do. It is under the FAQ for HCPs on CDC site today. But they...
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    Coronavirus (COVID-19): We Want to Hear from You

    RedWeasel replied to tnbutterfly - Mary's topic in Disaster Preparation

    They now want us to use paper gowns and masks With this:
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    Ethical Dilemma- Denying Care

    RedWeasel replied to alyssajenise.m's topic in Disaster Preparation

    If they tried to make me use droplet precautions...then yes. Give me every kind of PPE within reason and no
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    Amber Vinson has obtained a high power attorney

    RedWeasel replied to chadrn65's topic in Disaster Preparation

    I honestly think the cdc with their recommendations to use droplet precautions are at fault. Hospital - and most others in the country had stocked paper gowns masks and face shields for an ebola...
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    NEW EBOLA CSZAR Ron Klain

    RedWeasel replied to luv2's topic in Disaster Preparation

    I believe an excellent interim czar (or interim head of CDC if Tom Frieden steps down) or even an advisor to the czar would be Dr Brantly. He is still getting his strength back though I am sure. He...
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    What CDC wears in a Biosafety Level 4 Lab (with Ebola).

    RedWeasel posted a topic in Disaster Preparation

    It isn't Droplet Precautions that is for sure. No skin is exposed. They wear a positive pressure suit. Google the words "Biocontainment level 4." A CDC link will come up (among others - ignore...
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    Toward a Level 4 Protocol for Ebola

    RedWeasel replied to Nathan Frazier's topic in Disaster Preparation

    Please everyone, refuse to go into or work with a patient with suspected ebola unless protected in better PPE. PPE to the level of Biosafety Level 4 scientists. Please insist we are all protected at...
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    "Houston we have a problem" This just got very real

    RedWeasel replied to Esme12's topic in Disaster Preparation

    Scientists in a level 4 biohazard (research the 4 different levels - you will be surprised) containment labe wear airborne precautions due to it's virulence. That is just so they can work with it in...
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    Toward a Level 4 Protocol for Ebola

    RedWeasel replied to Nathan Frazier's topic in Disaster Preparation

    How can scientists suit up in the hazmat suits in the level 4 biohazard/containment lab at the CDC in order to work with Ebola in a petri dish, but nurses were even allowed to go in with just a gown...
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    URGENT: Are CDC Ebola Guidelines 'Good Enough'?

    RedWeasel replied to MissyWrite's topic in Disaster Preparation

    Oops I meant NO they don't have it right. At All. CDC Director should step
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    URGENT: Are CDC Ebola Guidelines 'Good Enough'?

    RedWeasel replied to MissyWrite's topic in Disaster Preparation

    NO - because in a different NY Times article they compare even current, as opposed to last week's, CDC guidelines used by some of the U.S.'s four biocontainment unit hospitals like Nebraska Medical...
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    Second ebola nurse "okay'd" to fly

    RedWeasel replied to babyNP.'s topic in Disaster Preparation

    NBC is reporting she may have been more symptomatic on the flight than previously reported. Another source said her illness was more progressed than Pham when diagnosed. Could she have been...
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    "Houston we have a problem" This just got very real

    RedWeasel replied to Esme12's topic in Disaster Preparation

    Exactly. I just think it is the CDCs job for it to be on the radar...twenty years ago. They needed plans in place. Ten plus 'teams' ready to fly out to whatever hospital gets the index patient to take...
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    URGENT: Are CDC Ebola Guidelines 'Good Enough'?

    RedWeasel replied to MissyWrite's topic in Disaster Preparation

    I can't believe the CDC has a poster to doff PPE by removing gloves, then reach up to your face wearing a dirty gown to remove face shield and mask, then remove dirty gown -after you have reached up...
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    GoFundMe account for Nina Pham RN

    RedWeasel replied to RNSue's topic in Disaster Preparation

    Aren't all of her possessions being incinerated? She will need all new? All new scrubs? Everything? I am not sure of course but they took out barrels of biohazard 'things.' I don't think the hospital...
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    PPE for Ebola?

    RedWeasel replied to Willow_RN's topic in Disaster Preparation

    I think our hospital rooms are pretty confined spaces as well. I think I could stand sweating in a suit vs a paper or plastic gown with neck exposed, gloves that rip easily and someone vomiting on...
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    PPE for Ebola?

    RedWeasel replied to Willow_RN's topic in Disaster Preparation

    The rooms at Emory and Omaha use Ultraviolet light to kill germs I do believe, other places have UV robots, so no some places may have limited amount of residual ebola on surfaces. The fact is, she...
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    Is it fair for the media to blame the RN in Texas for contracting Ebola?

    RedWeasel replied to luv2's topic in Disaster Preparation

    They sure didn't blame the Drs that got it now did
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    PPE for Ebola?

    RedWeasel replied to Willow_RN's topic in Disaster Preparation

    Exactly. It is ridiculous. Funny how the media isn't in the hospital to see how little the RNs had to work
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    PPE for Ebola?

    RedWeasel replied to Willow_RN's topic in Disaster Preparation

    I posted this somewhere else but on the CDC website under the Ebola info there is a section for healthcare workers. If you dig in there you will find a PDF on Donning and Doffing PPE. There is one...
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    "Houston we have a problem" This just got very real

    RedWeasel replied to Esme12's topic in Disaster Preparation

    Okay. So if you go to the CDC site and dig through the healthcare section on Ebola, you will find a link on how to Don and Doff PPE. Now, there is one example on donning. Cool. There are TWO for...
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    "Houston we have a problem" This just got very real

    RedWeasel replied to Esme12's topic in Disaster Preparation

    I would hope if dialysis and intubation would (down the road) help this RN then I think it is worth the risk Mr CDC Frieden. She put her life on the line for him! Does he think any other RN will want...
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    "Houston we have a problem" This just got very real

    RedWeasel replied to Esme12's topic in Disaster Preparation

    Exactly!
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    "Houston we have a problem" This just got very real

    RedWeasel replied to Esme12's topic in Disaster Preparation

    We cant. Not when they use full body suits, duct taped up around seams an reapirators just to clean her home...and yet the rN deals with projectile bloody vomit and diarrhea. That poor girl. ANA needs...
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    "Houston we have a problem" This just got very real

    RedWeasel replied to Esme12's topic in Disaster Preparation

    Yeah we are to wear a surg mask gown and gloves whereas these guys have someone checking them, sealing em with duct tape, and respirators. See video of the plane evacuation of the guy who sneezed then...