AIDS Cured?

[Simond]

Seriously, build a giant autoclave. Make all the furniture steel. Remove the linens/covers/mattresses to sterilize elsewhere and just bake the damn room.

Build the hospital out of brass.

And wood (also naturally antiseptic). Steampunk hospitals ahoy!

[Sheepherder]

[Mrbloodworth]

Something like this is almost enough to make me believe in Intelligent Design (or alternatively, Alien Panspermia).  That thing just does not *look* "organic" or naturally evolved.

--Dave

Uh, isn't that an artists rendition?

NVM, Freeky.

[Jimbo]

I'm still pissed about a proposal I did on using disposable leads for cardiac monitoring.  I showed how much a hospital infection costs, how often you can get it and from what equipment (1st was IV pumps, 2nd was cardiac monitor cables), but they shot it down.  Well I should say our old CNO shot it down, since it would be a big item purchases and for some reason it can't be charged to the patient.  Made no sense, as we have disposable items now that are charged, plus the main thing would be that the ER Doctor or Admitting Doctor wrote for a cardiac/telemetry order we would be justified in charging for that supply.  Then again HCA may think of how things are done down in Tennessee or the South, instead of how us yankies play.

Oh K9, thanks for the link, those pulse ox's & bp cuffs look great!  It is a pain in the ass to clean all of the equipment.  I was going around taking pictures of dirty equipment and then cleaning it.  I know some of the issue is that housekeeping won't even touch the electrical equipment because they don't want to be blamed for equipment breaking down.  Bleach is awesome but it tears equipment up, and to kill everything, it is usually a process of 1. wipe down visible stuff, 2. spray with Dispatch (bad mofo bleach cleaner, it kills shit dead, if given enough time), 3. let set for 2 minutes, 4. wipe with clean cloth.  This stuff will eat your hands, it's basically bleach packaged in either sheets or spray, but the fact that you have to spray, wipe, spray, sit, then wipe, makes for a long time to clean a room.  When you are stacking them up in the hall way, it kinda sucks trying to get a clean room and a fast turn around.  When we are busy I have the patient stand or sit outside the room as I clean it, so they know we aren't jacking around and really are busy.

Some of you all raised the washing hands with chemicals, I thought most studies have shown correct hand washing is better than any of the chemicals?  I've been a hand washing nazi, especially since we have new Paramedic's to RN's that are used to the field where they can't wash and have to use chemical crap, I hated that on the squad, would wash like crazy when we got to the hospital, even if I did foam, gloves, foam, it doesn't feel the same.

[Samwise]

Something like this is almost enough to make me believe in Intelligent Design (or alternatively, Alien Panspermia).  That thing just does not *look* "organic" or naturally evolved.

Uh, isn't that an artists rendition?

NVM, Freeky.

Did neither of you guys take biology in high school?   

[MournelitheCalix]

I read this article as well a few months ago.  Its astonishing but the primary literature seems to indicate that this actually did "cure" more than one patient.  Now I think the one complication here is that bone marrow transplants or human neutriphill transplants don't always take to the new host.