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Resistant Bacterial Infection Outbreak At California Hospital
puddingebola writes From the article: "A potentially deadly "superbug" resistant to antibiotics has infected seven patients, including two who died, and more than 160 others were exposed at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center through contaminated medical instruments, the hospital revealed. The drug-resistant superbug known as CRE was likely transmitted to the Los Angeles patients by contaminated medical scopes during endoscopic procedures that took place between October 2014 and January 2015, a university statement said. " UCLA says the infections occurred via contaminated endoscopes that were sterilized according to the manufacturer's specifications.
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Ronald Reagan's cold dead hand stretches forth again to wreak havoc across the land!
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Another fail for Linux and open sores.
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NOTE to submitter : maybe spend half a minute to find a site carrying the story that isn't hostile to sentient life.
2. Make sure any equipment used on you has been properly run through the autoclave.
Last time I went to the hospital to get a physical I picked up the flu and was sick for weeks. I avoid those places as much as I can.
Well, actually resistance is surprisingly effective.
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From January 9, 2014 ...
This investigation highlights the potential for CRE transmission following ERCP. Health-care facilities with CRE outbreaks should consider the possibility of ERCP-related transmission. If ERCP-related transmission of CRE is suspected, reprocessing and preventative maintenance procedures for ERCP endoscopes should be evaluated in consultation with the manufacturer of the endoscope and automated endoscope reprocessor, if used. In addition, expertise in the evaluation and prevention of CRE transmission are available at CDC and can be accessed via state and local health departments.
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So this "bug" went unpatched for at least a year.
These kinds of outbreaks crop up from time to time. Dealing with them is like dealing with ebola. Isolate patients and treat them and hope they get better. Otherwise the disease will burn itself out.
Sheldon Cooper: To a hospital? Full of sick people? Oh, I don't think so.
Penny: Okay, well, your friend and his mother are there. We're going!
Sheldon Cooper: I can't.
Penny: Oh, don't tell me you're afraid of germs.
Sheldon Cooper: Not all germs. Just the ones that will kill me. The same way I'm not afraid of all steak knives; just the ones that might be plunged in my thorax.
Leonard Hofstadter: Ah-uh, fine, I'll tell Howard you didn't come because you're more concerned about your own well-being than his.
Sheldon Cooper: I would think he would know that.
Penny: Okay, you know what? You are unbelievable. You buy all these superhero T-shirts but when it's time for you to step up and do the right thing, you just hide in the laundry room.
Sheldon Cooper: Fine, I'll go. Just for the record, my Aunt Ruth died in a hospital. She went in to visit my Uncle Roger, caught something, and bit the dust a week later. The two of them now share a coffee can on my mother's mantel.
We will bankrupt ourselves in the vain search for absolute security. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower
I'm seriously regretting any anti-bacterial soap I've used over the years right about now.
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And the final irony? If Ronald Reagan ran for President today, he would be kicked out of the GOP today for being too liberal.
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Precisely 35 days ago I read in L.A. Times an article about L.A. metro hospitals quality. This one came out in in bottom half.
"through contaminated medical instruments, the hospital revealed"
You just said the magic words that summons their lawyers. Law suit time!
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Woo!, hey now ya know
Inhale, exhale with my flow
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Cuz if you do, it break you get broke
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They said they sterilized the instruments as per manufacturer orders.
However, that leaves a very scary hole in the security of removing bacteria from equipment.
Policy needs to be modified to have the instruments sterilized properly, regardless of manufacturer orders.
If the instrument fails due to the sterilization, then at least you won't be passing on some nasty shit.
But this is only common sense.
Acid, chlorine, etc. all kill bacteria in ways that are unlikely to result in resistant strains.
The compounds in anti-bacterial soap (triclosan for example) are not used to treat internal
infections. Antibiotics are more specalized compounds which target bacteria and are (relatively) harmless to humans.
The problem (if there is one) with anti-bacterial soap seems to be that a certain amount of exposure to
bacteria is apparently good for the human immune system and widespread use of anti-bacterial compounds
works against this. It is the widespread addition of antibiotics to the feed for livestock which is of
most concern. Thie same compounds are feed to livestock as are used to treat human infections and
the animals become breeding ground for antibiotics resistant bacteria.
Clearly the reason these patients died is because the "Ronald Reagen" medical center used too "conservative" an approach to their treatment.
California is opening its doors to pretty much anyone from central America at this point... and they tend to be very poor people with no vaccinations, often they've been traveling for awhile under rough conditions, according to the people at the detainee centers these people are riddled with parasites/diseases/wriggling lice just falling out of their hair... etc.
So... whatever you might think about the issue... maybe you're one of those "there's no such thing as an illegal person" people... but this is not safe. California specifically is going through serial outbreaks because this crap is just flowing across the border. At the very least, establish an Ellis Island type quarantine facility so that they can get hosed off and deloused.
And I'll note for fun that if Americans decided to just show up in Mexico expecting to be housed, fed, treated for medical conditions without payment, etc the Mexicans would at best put those americans on a bus, dump them at the border, and then send the US government a bill for the service. Suggesting that this is not okay is not racism etc... no country in its right mind would put up with this crap.
Literally the only reason we are doing this is because the democrats are running out of US citizens that actually want to vote for them. So they're importing voters and pretty much breaking every rule on the books to do it. I'm not saying that if you're a democrat that you're a scummy person. You're probably my neighbor and I'm not mad at you. But the people pushing this at a high level are scummy people. They're used to buying elections and since that isn't working as well as it used to they're importing voters. Its pretty disgraceful.
And also a health concern apparently.
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You have no idea what you are talking about. When RR took office, the prime interest rate was over 20%, mortgage rates were about 18%, inflation was running at 13%, there were long lines to buy gasoline and the cost of heating skyrocketed. By the time he left office in 1989, 18 million new jobs had been created, inflation was cut to 4%, interest rates were cut in half, the Federal Registry of regulations had half the number of pages, and the Iron Curtain had come down. Reagan freed millions people from tyranny. He was a hero.
If they were cleaned per the Manufacturer's specs (which feels a little like the fox cleaning the hen house) then said company should be fined into oblivion and all involved with writing and approving said procedures held in gaol for quite some time.
But America, so jack shit will happen.
Most of that is stuff that would have happened regardless of who was President. Reagan (and Bush 1) also ballooned the national debt from about $908 billion in 1980 (32.5% of GDP) to $3,233 in 1990 (54.4% of GDP).
US were sick when he took office. I am not sure they recovered all that much unless of course you take that the status of US finances is perfect.
This is a bit OT but still. I saw a documentary about him not long time ago where they said that although he was a right wing anticommunist radical there were only 3 'marines sending events' at his watch - the smallest number since WWII. No wonder nobody likes US and US embassies have to look like fortresses. But hey this was apparently not his fault!
For which you can thank the democratic congress. Reagan shut down the government multiple times in budget fights to rein in spending, but there is only so much one man can do.
There is a whole family of bacteria in enterobacteriaceae, the E of CRE, including from E. coli to Salmonella. The brilliant story doesn't bother to mention which bacteria is causing the infections.
Current estimates are that 3% of patients in ICU test positive and 1/3 of people in nursing homes.
You read that right, 1/3. Also multiple types of bacteria are CRE. It means they have an enzyme that breaks down a class of antibotics.
This has been sneaking up on us for a while.
I think that the problem is, most bacteria are usually harmless, but these can't be killed easy, and if they ever turn into blood infections the mortality rate seems to be 50%.
Uh, no. Reagan would be vilified by the RINOs in the same way Ted Cruz is.
0.0125 isn't a very impressive kd imo