Hospitals

You know those screens that show the person’s heart rate? They are in hospitals and if the person’s heart stops it has a flat line and a long beeping noise.

The name of it is right on the tip of my tongue, I just can’t seem to put my finger on it! Any ideas?

And while I’m asking, does anybody know where I can get a GIF (or any kind of animation) of one? I’m making a movie for my art project and we need it.

Thanks a lot!
And yes, I am very aware it’s in the wrong category.

See the Wikipedia article on electrocardiography [1]. Down in the Waves and Intervals section there’s a GIF animation [2].

I mean, are hospitals built to withstand a tornado?
Do they like have a basement?

"If the paging operator announces that a tornado warning has been issued for Fayette County and you are a
patient-care staff member:
- Move visitors and ambulatory patients to interior corridors. Close room doors.
- Move non-ambulatory patients away form windows. Close blinds, cover patients with blankets,
and close room doors.
- Move to an interior corridor.
If you are a non-patient care staff member:
- Move to an interior corridor or office
- Close room doors."

After graduating from med school, I plan to go to Spain or France to train for neurosurgery. Which hospitals from either provide that opportunity?

The CHU (centre hospitalier universitaire) Bordeaux-Pellegrin (Bordeaux) is one of the best in Europe when it comes to neurosurgery.
Of course you have to speak French.

CHU Pellegrin: http://www.chu-bordeaux.fr/
Bordeaux medicine university: http://www.univ-bordeauxsegalen.fr/fr/index.html

Good luck

My boyfriend just admitted himself into a psychiatric hospital to get help, how long will he be in there for, am i going to be able to visit, and will he be able to call me?

I can answer your question because I did intake work at a psychiatric hospital for years.

First of all, your friend can have visitors and can make and receive phone calls while he is hospitalized and so you should plan on visiting him. Call the hospital to find out what their visiting hours are.
Secondly, if he is a voluntary patient, he was not committed or being held for examination for a set amount of time. And so his doctor can release him at any time. Or he can make a request to be discharged. But the length of time he will be hospitalized has to do with what is wrong with him and how well he is able to recover…just as in a general hospital.
And so what your friend needs is your support. Be sure to tell him that you want him to recover and be well and that you are pulling for him.

Your friend was given a written list of his rights on admission and if he chooses to, he can tell you how long his doctor needs to keep him in the hospital and if they will be testing him. All this takes time but hospitalization is very short these days and the treatment is intensive.

I wish you and him all the best.

need to care for friend in hospital, need address so to yahoo map for directions.

201 E. Grover Street, Shelby, NC 28150

http://maps.google.com/maps?um=1&ie=UTF-8&cid=0,0,6823184688820598006&fb=1&hq=cleveland+county+regional+hospital,shelby,nc&hnear=cleveland+county+regional+hospital,shelby,nc&gl=us&daddr=201+E.+Grover+Street,+Shelby,+NC+28150&geocode=1011033727267059214,35.301493,-81.537765&ei=mTidTKqiEIO0lQef5eTVCQ&sa=X&oi=local_result&ct=directions-to&resnum=2&ved=0CBkQngIwAQ

The cost of staying in rehab or a psychiatric hospital for even a short period of time are WAY TOO MUCH. Only the rich could afford it… what the hell? Is the US health care system really that fucked up? Why the hell does it cost that much?

1. The rich are the only ones who can afford a steady supply of illicit drugs anyway (or at least it was like that before meth)
2. It’s an intense process. It takes 3 or 4 trained professionals to handle and care for 1 drug addict. rehab centers need extensive security systems to stop addicts from escaping.

People tell me up to 5 but I thought it was less

You need to call the hospital to find out, but the hospitals I’ve been in only allow 2 people in the delivery room for a vaginal birth and only 1 person for a C-section

When I go to best buy they dont give me $100,000 in credit. When I buy a house or car I cant get unlimited credit. Why do hospitals charge thousands beyond your ability to pay. Sounds like a scam to me. They say its a service but it sounds like a ripoff. They dont have right to extend you credit what are they an effing bank?

Exactly, when you run out of money they should just push your sorry a$$ to the sidewalk

I am an RN moving to Florida within the next month and I am having a hard time finding hospitals with maternity/ post partum floors. If anyone can help me I would really appreciate it! Thanks!

They may not have a maternity floor – but every hospital I have ever seen has a materneity section

In lab we’re using an EldonCard kit to diagnose our blood type. If you are suffering extremely fast blood loss in the emergency room, how do hospitals figure out your blood type so fast?

A rapid slide agglutination test takes about 30 seconds. They start off with O neg blood and while that all is going they do the rapid type.