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re: Woman dies after contracting flesh-eating bacteria, Husband blames delayed diagnosis
Posted on 5/11/18 at 10:11 am to i am dan
Posted on 5/11/18 at 10:11 am to i am dan
quote:Yea, not a chance. She would have looked like death warmed over if it progressed that quickly.
No way she died from it just being on her butt I'm assuming. Did it eat away a large portion of her skin or does it go internal?
Not sure what the cause of death would be here. Not enough info.
quote:Incredibly painful. Awful skin infection with breakdown and necrosis.
Anyone familiar with necrotizing fasciitis?
Scruffy is not sure how quickly this progressed, but if she was still able to move around and carry on her daily life, she must have been one tough woman.
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Posted on 5/11/18 at 10:11 am to i am dan
Likely felt sick, more than a sore on her arse. Was septic, kept chugging through her day. Probably passed out early am and died.
This post was edited on 5/11/18 at 10:12 am
Posted on 5/11/18 at 10:13 am to lsupride87
quote:
The antibiotic and heating pad diagnosis screams lazy, possible negligent practice though.
Sounds like an abscess. If it's not ready to be drained, that's the treatment. Warm compresses with antibiotics (assuming some cellulitis).
Posted on 5/11/18 at 10:14 am to i am dan
quote:
My brother came down with Gilliam Barre Syndrome last month and the doctors missed his diagnosis
quote:This one will be tough
Brother is considering suing.
I feel for your bro (one of my best friends had Gilliam Barre, dont worry your bro will be fine
), but I doubt your brother has a shot in hell with this one GB actually cant be diagnosed with a test or anything, it is simply diagnosed with other issues being ruled out. It is normal and not considered negligence for it to be missed
Posted on 5/11/18 at 10:15 am to i am dan
Medicine will progress dramatically when super computers start doing all the diagnosis. Doctor's can only remember and Google so much.
Posted on 5/11/18 at 10:15 am to TDcline
quote:
Lots of cases of this going on in the gulf in recent years. I know it says hot tub but that shite seems to be spreading
It's called Vibrio for short. It usually gets the people with compromised immune systems. Most cases are the result of having open wounds/cuts that get infected from water where the bacteria is present. It is a very aggressive and it is often miss diagnosed since it often mimics symptoms of other ailments early on. Lots of times, people can be sick within a few hours and sometimes having to literally amputate affected body parts within days.
Bottom line, it is some bad arse shite.
This post was edited on 5/11/18 at 10:17 am
Posted on 5/11/18 at 10:15 am to DemonKA3268
quote:
Martin said he believes his wife may have contracted the infection from the Florida hotel’s hot tub.
Not likely. It’s more likely a Vibrio vulnificus infection she picked up wading along the beach.
Posted on 5/11/18 at 10:16 am to Scruffy
quote:Scruffy did you read my story on page 1 where i beckoned you?
Scruffy
Posted on 5/11/18 at 10:18 am to lsupride87
quote:
The antibiotic and heating pad diagnosis screams lazy, possible negligent practice though.
If she had no signs of sepsis, then why do you think this? Doctors in her part of the country aren’t used to checking for infectious diseases from the beach.
Posted on 5/11/18 at 10:20 am to lsupride87
quote:
The antibiotic and heating pad diagnosis screams lazy, possible negligent practice though.
A "kind of painful pimple" is not uncommon. Necrotizing fasciitis is rare. I'd be interested to hear statistics on early detection that avoids the need for hospital care with extensive debridement.
Posted on 5/11/18 at 10:21 am to Spock's Eyebrow
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Tragic, but it's not clear the doctors did anything wrong.
No, they did do something wrong. The symptoms the article reports she went to the doctor with are symptoms of a staph infection, which can be deadly if the bacteria gets into your bloodstream.
The doctor should have tested the sore on the first visit to rule anything out and to see if it was staph, so he could properly treat it.
I've dealt with recurring staph infections for the past three years and I'm 100% convinced that it is how I will die one day. I'm convinced that shite will get into my blood and I will become septic.
If he would've tested it from the get go this maybe could've been avoided. A doctor taking the laissez faire route on patients simply because they feel like they have bigger problems to deal with with other patients who are still waiting in the waiting room PISS ME OFF. It's why I go straight to a specialist whenever I have something wrong with me. frick general practitioners. They're not worth the shite in my kid's diaper.
This post was edited on 5/11/18 at 10:25 am
Posted on 5/11/18 at 10:21 am to lsupride87
quote:
Brought my kid into the clinic in Orange Beach while on vacation because he had a wheeze when he was breathing in. I figured no big deal since he was still playing, but might as well bring him in
Physician diagnosed him with bronchitis and gave him antibitics to treat it
When we returned home, we followed up with his primary pedectrician
The pedetreician called the DR from Orange Beach a dumbass POS basically
Said 1. Wheezing on the inhale is not a sign of bronchitis usually. 2. Young children rarely get full fledge bronchitis. 3. THe main kicker, even if it was bronchitis treating it with antibiotics is beyond dumb
my kid had simple croup
Was it one of those quick clinics?
Be careful about those.
1. They largely employ NPs. Not all, but majority of them do. And, yes, they refer to themselves as Dr. So-and-so.
2. They hold to the stance of “they just want something even with viral infections”.
You would be absolute amazed by the crap that people are prescribed and sent home with by those clinics.
Scruffy has seen everything from what you described to oral albuterol to acyclovir for colds.
Don’t trust every practitioner you see, and if you go to a Quick Care clinic, realize before hand that they will give you something, likely an antibiotic, no matter the diagnosis.
Posted on 5/11/18 at 10:22 am to Bmath
quote:Just in general
If she had no signs of sepsis, then why do you think this? Doctors in her part of the country aren’t used to checking for infectious diseases from the beach.
The give em an antibiotic and give me the next patient routine
We have been cracking down hard on where I work to stop that. I have done audits on it for some of the Doctors who requested it at their clinics
In this specific case it could have been perfect practice though. Ill leave that to the doctors in here to discuss
Posted on 5/11/18 at 10:25 am to TDsngumbo
quote:See this all the time in the ER.
The doctor should have tested the sore on the first visit to rule anything out and to see if it was staph, so he could properly treat it.
We never culture the abscess or sore unless it is big enough to incise and drain. Those either are drained in the ER or go to the OR.
Always treat first with an antibiotic and then re-evaluate if symptoms worsen or change. The vast majority do not.
Posted on 5/11/18 at 10:25 am to TDcline
quote:
that shite seems to be spreading
It's not just the gulf. About mid-summer last year they issued a warning for NW Alabama about finding it in a few rivers.
I had a customer get it a few years ago and he had to wear an pump for antibiotics for about a month to get rid of it.
Posted on 5/11/18 at 10:27 am to Scruffy
quote:
Scruffy
Are you a doctor?
Posted on 5/11/18 at 10:28 am to TDsngumbo
Yes.
Posted on 5/11/18 at 10:29 am to lsupride87
Antibiotics, in general, are becoming more difficult to use for infections where the specific bacteria is unknown.
Thanks to horizontal gene transfer, all kinds of bacteria species are gaining resistance to various antibiotics. And with that, simple species confirmation on a Petri dish doesn’t often tell you much else.
Metagenomic analysis would be much more accurate, but it isn’t efficient enough at this point.
Thanks to horizontal gene transfer, all kinds of bacteria species are gaining resistance to various antibiotics. And with that, simple species confirmation on a Petri dish doesn’t often tell you much else.
Metagenomic analysis would be much more accurate, but it isn’t efficient enough at this point.
This post was edited on 5/11/18 at 7:55 pm
Posted on 5/11/18 at 10:29 am to Scruffy
quote:Yes. We had no choice. Orange Beach/Gulf Shores is horrendous for medical care. It is strange
Was it one of those quick clinics?
quote:This was actually an MD sadly
They largely employ NPs.
quote:Yeh I wanted to just wait until we got home from vacation, because I knew he likely was fine because he was still playing and happy, but I wsa just worried about how quickly a breathing issue could become serious
Don’t trust every practitioner you see, and if you go to a Quick Care clinic, realize before hand that they will give you something, likely an antibiotic, no matter the diagnosis.
And of course it was a sunday
If I could have called our pediatrician I am sure he would have told us not to worry and just monitor ourselves Posted on 5/11/18 at 10:32 am to Scruffy
quote:
Yes.
So what's your take on recurring staph infections? I've had them for three years, mostly in my nose, but a few have been under my armpits, on my nipple (yes, on my nipple), and right above my dick below my belt line. That one started off as what I thought was an ingrown hair but then progressed to be about the size of a quarter. It never grew a head, just kinda went away after a week or so of antibiotics. But it comes back every now and then then goes away.
This shite scares the hell out of me. How common is this?
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