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Re: mrsa followup From: Gail Waldby (gwaldby@willinet.net) Thu Nov 2 21:48:40 2000 Messages sorted by: [ date ][ thread ][ subject ][ author ] Next message: Garry Siegel: "Re: Coding question" Previous message: chris stanley: "mrsa followup" In reply to: chris stanley: "mrsa followup" Doesn't your hospital have written policies for dealing with MRSA? It isn't that bad an infection. Vanco resistant enterococcus is much worse because it lives on inanimate surfaces, like most of the patient's room, the patient's possessions etc. I think our hospital took our policies straight from the relevant government organization, probably the CDC. Gail Waldby, MD Huron Clinic SD At 10:38 PM 11/2/2000 -0600, you wrote: >wrote last week about patient colonized with MRSA. before i could >educate our l/d staff on the fine points of the situation she, of >course, went into labor and delivered. major fiasco. anesthesia >refused to give her an epidural because of "infection concerns". the >nursery isolated the baby in a special room with negative air pressure >and made the parents don suits prior to visiting. trying to explain the >difference between "colonization" and "infection" was a lost cause. >quite frightening what mass hysteria can do to otherwise rational >professionals. > >cj stanley, md facog >daytona beach, fl Next message: Garry Siegel: "Re: Coding question" Previous message: chris stanley: "mrsa followup" In reply to: chris stanley: "mrsa followup"

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