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...Harvard during the 1994 outbreak and refined during anthrax scares post-9/11. He describes Harvard’s new protocol in sweeping terms: “Monitoring the victims—probably with the Cambridge Health Department, lab testing to trace back to original source, caring for the sickest students, and cooperating with area hospitals. Prevention and prophylaxis [identifying and preemptively treating at-risk but not yet ill students] is always a concern.” Koh went on to cite a major difference between the health crisis efforts of today and those of ten years...
...also led researchers to talk about their results earlier and earlier. It used to be that only wild horses would get a scientist to report on Phase I of a drug trial - the first study of a drug in human patients, which usually involve a handful of the sickest patients who have not responded to standard treatments. The purpose of Phase I studies is to establish what's known as the maximum tolerated dose - that is, the dose at which the drug then becomes too toxic and dangerous to take. But because the number of patients is too small...
...most basic challenge facing every patient is knowing when to go to the local community hospital and when to seek out the major teaching center. For all their fame and all-star doctors, teaching hospitals carry risks of their own. The sickest patients often have compromised immune systems and may need to be treated with broad-spectrum antibiotics--which increases the chance that antibiotic-resistant strains of staph and other bacteria will make the rounds of the intensive-care unit. As a rule, doctors decide where to go based on how sick they are. For fairly routine care...
...heard from. With no electricity and the backup generators flooded, the staff got news from the hospital's lone ham radio. At one point, a helicopter rescue was planned, with a pickup point atop Tulane University Hospital, three blocks away. Nurses carrying babies boarded rowboats--respirating the sickest ones by "hand bagging," a method of forcing air into the lungs. But the helicopter was commandeered for another mission, and the nurses returned with their swaddled patients. "The staff was just emotionally drained. They're crying and upset as they came back," says Gibson. She walked the units to reassure them...
...Common Room magically opens. I have my suspicions that it coincides with the “Harvest Moon.” I can’t be totally sure. You sort of have to have a sixth sense for it. Lucky for me, my freshman year roommate had the sickest “sixth sense” I’ve ever encountered. One time he looked at me with an expression of utter lunacy and whispered, “Dude, I think it’s open.” We proceeded to stockpile almost every item...