There’s been so much discussion of infectious disease procedures for health care workers treating Ebola patients, I thought I would pass along this video Parkland sent to me this morning. It is instructive.
It gives the layperson a good idea how mistakes could be made at any number of stages in the process and how health care workers could be put at risk.
We still don’t know when, where or how mistakes were made at Texas Health Presbyterian, mostly because Presby has been confusing and misleading.
But this video certainly drives home the point that the nurses union made earlier his week — that this level of protective gear doesn’t match the threat Ebola poses to individual health care workers in close contact with an infected person. Notice that her neck is not covered. Earlier this week, the CDC added another requirement not seen in this video — a hood that covers the neck.
FYI: Just for the record, here’s Presbyterian’s take on events, which you can find on this link.