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The patient wouldn't tolerate it. The only kind of dialysis that would be used in a severely ill patient would be CRRT. Hemodialysis and peritoneal would cause too quick a shift in blood pressure.

The others were not sick enough to require intubation or crrt.

I am not debating that these procedures are high risk. I am debating whether they can be considered thus non essential and to be avoided. That is the cdc guideline you are claiming exists yet appears nowhere in the actual cdc literature.

I prefer to get my information regarding ebola recommendations directly from the cdc and the scientific literature.

Can you link me to where on the cdc website it specifically says intubation and dialysis are non essential procedures and are recommended against using them?

Will have to agree to disagree here.

Intubation/ventilation and dialysis are essential procedures that are life saving. I think the media misinterpreted the statement by the cdc.

Influenza like illness.

It feels like 40 trillion times, as in the case of a patient with ILI. I'm sure the only responsible answer is as often as needed and any time you have any doubts.

I don't think so. We work in high stress, high PPE circumstances on an average day.

I know. I was replying based on my own experience.

We videotaped ourselves donning and doffing in a mock ebola room

My uneducated guess is an unintended breach in protocol. In our taped trials here we found that the more complex, more unfamiliar the PPE is, the number of contaminated breaches went way up, usually in removing the PPE.

2 nurses to one patient. We will be allowed to go home after work. Not sure what you mean by extra insurance, health care is "free" here.

Length of shift: 12 hrs Assistance with PPE: a second nurse and probably every infection prevention and control officer in existence watching us like a hawk. Pts will be isolated immediately. Dedicated equipment yes, dedicated lab no but extreme measures are in place for labs. There will be...

Yes i think the n95 will be enough with the face shield. They may convert us to a full head cover though. There are 2 designated nurses per ebola pt and one dedicated respiratory therapist. One nurse stays out of the room and acts as decontamination buddy, logs everyone in and out. Not sure...

4 in negative pressure rooms. All our unit's nurses have been trained, and we will not pull from other units.

We are currently an icu unit that is active but not with ebola patients.

Yes the symptoms are very non specific early on and later are much like a multiorgan failure patient. To be clear, we are a designated unit but haven't recieved any suspected ebola patients yet. Knock on wood.

Thank you!