Latest Coronavirus - Yikes

[Orange_Vol1321]

Nope.

Lol, keep pumping the impeachment BS.

 

[volfanhill]

Alibaba billionaire Jack Ma, China's richest man, pledged $14.5 million to fight the coronavirus

 

[Orange_Vol1321]

Aren’t there several hospitals in Wuhan? If they can only test about 300 per day how many are going undiagnosed? How many have become to sick to get to a hospital or just given up on trying? How many with the virus are locked into their homes already? How many are dying without an “official” coronavirus diagnosis and their cause of death is being listed as something else due to that?

The numbers are atleast double of what's being reported.

 

[ETV]

Picking up the Mrs. @ IAH and I've seen quite a few people wearing masks exiting the terminals.

 

[NurseGoodVol]

Fyi cdc recommendations are to place any positive pt in a negative pressure isolation room. In the USA you can't place them in regular rooms because it recirculates the air through the positive pressure hepa filter system. Maybe an engineer can help me out here that's worked on a hospital system before, but I don't think they are graded for airborn viruses. I know which pts we have to put in negative pressure rooms and they are few and far between.

 

[C-south]

Hey, diversity makes us stronger!

Unless you have coronavirus.

 

[DynaLo]

 

[RavinDave]

Unless you have coronavirus.

If I need lifesaving medical care I don’t care what color/gender my doc is as long as he/she is either a he or a she and knows his/her sh!t.

 

[Burhead]

Aren’t there several hospitals in Wuhan? If they can only test about 300 per day how many are going undiagnosed? How many have become to sick to get to a hospital or just given up on trying? How many with the virus are locked into their homes already? How many are dying without an “official” coronavirus diagnosis and their cause of death is being listed as something else due to that?

Just like everything I've heard that they can test 300 cases a day like what was mentioned and than I saw another that they've increased capacity to 2,000 a day. I don't know which is true.

 

[Orange_Vol1321]

Fyi cdc recommendations are to place any positive pt in a negative pressure isolation room. In the USA you can't place them in regular rooms because it recirculates the air through the positive pressure hepa filter system. Maybe an engineer can help me out here that's worked on a hospital system before, but I don't think they are graded for airborn viruses. I know which pts we have to put in negative pressure rooms and they are few and far between.

Each room will have a air supply register and a return register. The air is forced in by the air handler and the return air is pulled back to the air handler to start the process all over again.

 

[NurseGoodVol]

Each room will have a air supply register and a return register. The air is forced in by the air handler and the return air is pulled back to the air handler to start the process all over again.

So all rooms are basically positive pressure that feed into a larger system that supplies that floor?

 

[Orange_Vol1321]

So all rooms are basically positive pressure that feed into a larger system that supplies that floor?

Yes. The air is reused but when positive can also escape.

 

[Orange_Vol1321]

ER, Autopsy room, custodial closets, special disease rooms etc. will be negative pressure.

 

[DynaLo]

I’ve wondered how many negative pressure rooms our hospitals have available and what about small local hospitals, would they have those rooms?

Edit: might have found an answer to this question that isn’t very encouraging if there’s a large outbreak in the US.

Official counts of negative pressure rooms do not exist. Experts estimate that approximately 4000-5000 negative pressure rooms exist in hospitals throughout the United States.

Negative Pressure Rooms | Encyclopedia.com

 

[C-south]

If I need lifesaving medical care I don’t care what color/gender my doc is as long as he/she is either a he or a she and knows his/her sh!t.

Exactly my point. I don’t want some affirmative action or diversity quota person taking the place of a more qualified person.

 

[volfanhill]

If I need lifesaving medical care I don’t care what color/gender my doc is as long as he/she is either a he or a she and knows his/her sh!t.

I don’t care if it’s a dolphin as long as it can get the job done

 

[ajvol01]

Ok I wanna know. WTH is that on post 703?

Ugh. Wish I wasn’t curious enough to watch that.

 

[NurseGoodVol]

I’ve wondered how many negative pressure rooms our hospitals have available and what about small local hospitals, would they have those rooms?

I've worked in 4 ICU's. They each had 4.
3 were 500+ Bed hospitals.

 

[Orange_Vol1321]

Ugh. Wish I wasn’t curious enough to watch that.

It's a Geoduck.

Pacific clam. Lol

 

[NurseGoodVol]

It's a Geoduck.

Pacific clam. Lol

She acted like that geoduck owed her money.

 

[RavinDave]

Exactly my point. I don’t want some affirmative action or diversity quota person taking the place of a more qualified person.

That’s how I read your post too.

 

[RavinDave]

I don’t care if it’s a dolphin as long as it can get the job done

Gender fluidity is not so compatible with medical science. Just my opinion. Guess I’m a dinosaur.

 

[volfanhill]

Gender fluidity is not so compatible with medical science. Just my opinion. Guess I’m a dinosaur.

If I need a surgeon, and they are the best one, I don’t care about anything besides their ability to perform surgery.

 

[KB5252]

I had pneumonia once, I refuse to admit when I'm sick, always blame it on allergies it head cold. At the worst I felt horrible, didn't get out of bed for two days then went back to work. After more than a week of feeling horrible I finally went to a clinic. After taking temp and an x-ray of lungs the doctor came back and asked me how long is been sick, I told him about 8 or 9 days. He said you're lucky you didn't end up in the ER and showed me a lung half filled with crud.

Point to all that is I'm assuming this strain is much more virulent than what I dealt with. If this strain isn't more powerful or spread more easily why are so many Chinese being affected? Is it more contagious or deadly?

 

[DynaLo]

I've worked in 4 ICU's. They each had 4.
3 were 500+ Bed hospitals.

Found some info and edited my post up there