AW: [HSF] Re: Post op antibiotics, double gloving

[Michael Firstenberg]

Just sent a 35 year old HM XVE home today post op day 12.  We have another 62 yr old HM2 bridge ready to go home or rehab any day now (done off pump - i see you stole our idea w the jarviks).  Listed 2 bridges this week for xplant - one went to the OR with CPR in progress on a sunday the other was almost as bad.  

The patients and families are happy to be with their loved ones.

So how is it going?  You tell me.

Michael Firstenberg <msfirst at gmail.com>

-----Original Message-----
From: "Ani Anyanwu" <anianyanwu at hotmail.com>
To: openheart-l at lists.hsforum.com
Sent: 10/3/2007 6:26 PM
Subject: RE: AW: [HSF] Re: Post op antibiotics, double gloving

Michael
 
One of those futile LVADs we do will pay for double gloving of the entire hospital for the year.
 
Wonder how your LVAD scene is going - I am switching another one off tonight - another 250,000 US healthcare dollars gone!
 
When Tea responded to my question asking how he paid for the Chase SVR balloons his answer made me reflect - the money is there, depends on what we chose to spend it on (same applies in all health systems - all down to how you ration the resources you do have. For example I find it interesting when erdinc can fund a complex reoperation on the aortic root yet cannot fund a seldinger cannula to use on those odd occasions it may be helpful - we all make choices).
 
Ani



> Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2007 13:16:10 -0400> From: msfirst at gmail.com> To: OpenHeart-L at lists.hsforum.com> Subject: Re: AW: [HSF] Re: Post op antibiotics, double gloving> CC: > > Ahhhh - you assume they understand cause and effect (is there any???)> > besides - it sounds like it is all about you you you..... thousands are> starving in Africa, countless go without critical heart surgery in India -> and you want the luxury of double gloving?> > > m> > > ... ok I am in a little sarcastic mood - hope you appreciate my bad> humor....but unfortunately, the way that some of these administrators and> pencil pushers think, I may not be that far off. "Dr Frater - we have done> a local market survery and found our glove budget is twice that of Man> Greatest Clinic down the street - so fix it"> > > On 10/3/07, Rwmfglycar at aol.com <Rwmfglycar at aol.com> wrote:> >> >> > In a message dated 10/3/2007 11:25:22 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,> > msfirst at g> > mail.com writes:> >> > How does your hospital administrator's justify your 2x budget> > for sterile> > gloves?> >> >> > -michael> >> >> >> >> > Dear Michael,> > Expletive ,Expletive, Expletive!> > 1)They can compare the cost of double gloves with the cost of caring> > for one> > infection> > 2) When I wore single gloves, I often changed them more than once if I> > noticed a tear; I experienced electric shocks when using the Cautery;I> > found a> > small bloodstain on my hand when I took them off. These experiences> > disappeared> > when I started using double gloves and studies with careful protocols have> > been published confirming fewer tears of the glove next to the skin.> > 3)They can subtract $50 a day from the Lord High Muckamuck Chief Executive> > President's salary.> > Bob> >> >> >> > ************************************** See what's new at> > http://www.aol.com> > _______________________________________________> > OpenHeart-L mailing list> >> > Send postings to:> > OpenHeart-L at lists.hsforum.com> >> > To UNSUBSCRIBE, to CHANGE email address, or to view archives:> > http://mmp.cjp.com/mailman/listinfo/openheart-l> >> > All messages transmitted by the OpenHeart-L are subject to the policies> > and> > disclaimers posted at:> > http://www.hsforum.com/listdisclaim> > -----------------------------------------> >> _______________________________________________> OpenHeart-L mailing list> > Send postings to:> OpenHeart-L at lists.hsforum.com> > To UNSUBSCRIBE, to CHANGE email address, or to view archives:> http://mmp.cjp.com/mailman/listinfo/openheart-l> > All messages transmitted by the OpenHeart-L are subject to the policies and > disclaimers posted at:> http://www.hsforum.com/listdisclaim> -----------------------------------------
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