| Here's the little I know.
If it's a hospital in Mass. then his chances are better because they
still practice indoor air quality standards that were put in place when
tuberculosis was rampant, at least the last I heard they did. (Can't
remember off the top of my head what they were called.) New York did
not and when a patient came into a NY city hospital with TB, around 67
other people in the hospital contracted it.
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| We are going thru this right now with my mother-in-law who is dying.
She has a antibotic resistant infection and they have posted
precautions just outside her door. Fortunately, it is not supposed to
be airborne.
They moved her roomate out of the room. Posted precautions include wearing
gloves for incidental contact with the patient and any surfaces in the
room; gowns and masks for very close contact with the patient. Washing
your ands with soap and water after removing gloves is strongly
emphasized as the most important precaution.
According to her physician and nursing staff you are at risk only if
you are ill or run down. Healthy people generally are not at risk
although they could acquire the bug and not show any symptoms.
After all that, while we were trying to follow all these precautions we
noticed that most of the aides, nurses and Doctors attending only used
gloves, never gowned or masked even when changing IV,s cleaning or
examining her.
We are continuing to follow the precautions in spite of their seemingly
unconcerned attitude.
JB
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