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Pastimes : SARS - what next? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Henry Niman who wrote (590)	6/23/2003 11:58:49 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1070

<Dr. Perl said that of the 1,200 employees at Scarborough Grace Hospital in Toronto, where the earliest cases occurred, 70 developed SARS. As of last week, only 6 had returned to work full time, 29 were back working part time and the remaining 35 were still out. No Scarborough worker who was treated in an intensive care unit was back to work. "We're finding that it takes quite a long time for some people to get back even if they haven't been that badly infected" because of the physical and psychological effects of the disease, Dr. Brunton said.> It's an ill wind that blows nobody good. Those who have been infected can be trained to deal with sars the next time around. They'll be immune and since they survived, they are obviously very immune now. So they are obviously the people who need to go to battle next time. They'll be able to charge a LOT of money for their services. There should be 2000 immune people ready to take it on next time. There are a lot of medically trained people who are now immune and who can show the apprentices how to do things. They wouldn't even need to wear masks! I wonder if the medical guilds have started hiring and training or are they sitting dopily flat-footed and hoping for the best? They should get onto the politicians to set up a sars training school right now. This is a more important war than the war against Al Qaeda and Islamic Jihad, which attracts umpty $$billion. Mqurice

To: Henry Niman who wrote (590)	6/25/2003 1:14:06 PM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1070

>>Sounds like a real global outbreak of SARS would bring health care to its knees in the US (and around the world). << Yes, it probably would. Not enough respirators, not enough beds, and the first line responders get sick at a level disproportionate to anything we've seen in many years. Sick cops, sick paramedics, sick nurses, sick doctors, nowhere to go. Very bleak. Not as deadly as, say, Ebola but far easier to catch. They really need to brush up on their sterile technique. No full beards, cut the nails very short and use a nail brush, stuff like that. I was a scrub tech for a while. When I see hospital staff walking around the entire hospital wearing scrub shoes and the scrub hat and then going back to work in the patient care area it makes me cringe. You can't do that, because you bring back germs and crud and who knows what, and it's all on the outside. Scrub shoes and scrub hats are supposed to keep your own germs inside. They treat it like it's just a uniform. The real RNs know better but there aren't enough of them.