• chevron_right

      California hospital staff call for halt of surgeries over bizarre particles

      news.movim.eu / ArsTechnica · Thursday, 8 June, 2023 - 16:05

    Surgical implements are seen on a tray during a surgery.

    Enlarge / Surgical implements are seen on a tray during a surgery. (credit: Getty | Ritesh Shukla )

    More than 70 staff members of a San Diego-area hospital are calling for a halt of all surgeries at the facility due to unidentified black, brown, and gray specks on surgical trays, the San Diego Union-Tribune reported.

    The objecting staff have signed a petition to spur hospital officials to pause procedures until the issue is resolved. But officials at the facility, the Kaiser Permanente Zion Medical Center, have rejected the call, according to the Union-Tribune. A spokesperson for the facility did not respond to voicemails from Ars.

    "Providing safe, quality, and timely care to our patients is our top priority, and we will continue to schedule surgeries at Zion that can be safely performed," Kaiser told the Union-Tribune in a statement. "We have confirmed that all measures we are taking to clean, process and transport surgical equipment to our Zion Medical Center for use [are] safe and medically appropriate."

    Read 7 remaining paragraphs | Comments

    • chevron_right

      Judge’s order requiring hospital to give COVID patient ivermectin called “unethical”

      Tim De Chant · news.movim.eu / ArsTechnica · Monday, 30 August, 2021 - 21:42

    Judge’s order requiring hospital to give COVID patient ivermectin called “unethical”

    Enlarge (credit: Aurich Lawson | Getty Images)

    A county judge in Ohio has ordered a hospital in Cincinnati to administer ivermectin to an intensive care patient, a move raises questions about the role of the courts in the medical system.

    “It is absurd that this order was issued,” Arthur Caplan , professor of bioethics at New York University’s Langone Medical Center, told Ars. “If I were these doctors, I simply wouldn’t do it.”

    The order was spurred by a lawsuit filed by Julie Smith, whose 51-year-old husband, Jeffrey, is being treated in West Chester Hospital for COVID-19. The lawsuit was first reported by the Ohio Capital Journal . Jeffrey has been in the hospital since July 15, and as his condition declined, his wife Julie began investigating alternative treatments.

    Read 10 remaining paragraphs | Comments

    index?i=Rc2brjQomGk:QKw7FzNGfls:V_sGLiPBpWUindex?i=Rc2brjQomGk:QKw7FzNGfls:F7zBnMyn0Loindex?d=qj6IDK7rITsindex?d=yIl2AUoC8zA