tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30206473.post4018288455140755500..comments2023-10-23T11:24:13.532-04:00Comments on Diabetes Update: Safe Surgery with DiabetesJennyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17384082448952856117noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30206473.post-76789767274984786892008-10-29T18:19:00.000-04:002008-10-29T18:19:00.000-04:00Mother was very unwilling to go into hospital rece...Mother was very unwilling to go into hospital recently (for a non-surgical illness) as the last two times they cured what she went in with and gave her cellulitis (MRSA was never actually mentioned but it was pretty antibiotic resistant in both cases)Probably fortunately they sent her home with a loaner nebuliser and told her to act as if she was still in hospital. When the nurse made her daily Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30206473.post-22998303599702258682008-10-28T20:10:00.000-04:002008-10-28T20:10:00.000-04:00Sadly, the accreditation process does not guarante...Sadly, the accreditation process does not guarantee a hospital is safe from MRSA. <BR/><BR/>The hospital where my roomate acquired MRSA was accredited. <BR/><BR/>The accreditation process does not involve ongoing frequent testing and many hospitals do not keep accurate data about infections.<BR/><BR/>The recent change in Medicare which states that Medicare will no longer pay for treatment of Jennyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17384082448952856117noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30206473.post-968800788672892452008-10-28T18:59:00.000-04:002008-10-28T18:59:00.000-04:00Accredited hospitals go through a rigorous evaluat...Accredited hospitals go through a rigorous evaluation procedure that covers everything including hospital acquired infections. Stay out of non accredited hospitals unless you evaluate why they are non accredited. Sometimes that can be because they take the most difficult patients (medical school university hospitals) and fail because their death rate is higher as would be expected.Haroldhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01994986171971625331noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30206473.post-91563976067517081392008-10-28T16:03:00.000-04:002008-10-28T16:03:00.000-04:00I had oral surgery last year. I didn't count anyt...I had oral surgery last year. I didn't count anything, but I was careful about carbs, fbg was running in the 80s before the surgery. I did talk to the surgeon about the iv before hand and made sure it didn't have any glucose in it. He did say I was healing better than he expected. I was not able to eat anything solid for a long time so I pretty much lived on Walker Diet protein shakes, eggs, Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15727857476700090660noreply@blogger.com