Scrolling through this thread, I'm wondering if it should have been under "Jokes" (and I love a good laugh).
[whose neck, Billy ... the thermometer or the patient?]
Can all this expense, frustration,
etc., etc. (let's collect it all together under the word
nonsense, shall we?) be any worse than the "risks" (largely imagined, in my opinion) associated with the traditional (mercury) clinical thermometer?
Maybe
Dominic needs to take a look at these things (rather than infusion devices, which have already been designed and refined to the
n-th degree). How about making the casings from a rubberised material, for a start? They're more likely to bounce better that way.
By the way ... what about the
results being achieved ... "patient outcomes" and all the rest? Is it still the norm that Nursing Auxiliaries (HCA's, or whatever they are called at the moment) get lumbered with doing the rounds collecting "stats"? How accurately are readings (*NIBP? Temp?) recorded? What use is made of all such data? How many boxes get ticked?
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Patients' general condition, pallour, need for a drink and all the rest being too much to hope for, I should imagine.
