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Originally Posted by rp001
Sorry Russ, have to disagree with you...The majority of the negative posts did complain about waiting times, but in addition some of us pointed out what we had seen there in regards to lack of care and suffering to the extreme. As I've said before, I personally witnessed a young man with an obviously dislocated shoulder, moaning in pain in a wheelchair for 8 hrs...I witnessed a diagnosed stroke patient, with spouse that worked there, leave for another hospital after sitting for 6 hrs unattended, and elderly in wheelchairs left unattended for hrs..In no way do I see this as any form of normal treatment in this country.
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Your mentioning care in the ER. No, none, nada, zero stroke patients wait in the ER unattended. NONE. Repeat NONE. You may have been told by the patient that he/she was a positive stroke patient but I guarantee you that IF they were a positive blockage or bleed stroke patient they were cared for and monitored in the ER. If they had a blockage they would have been given some sort of thrombolitic (Tpa, Heparin drip, Fragmin etc.). That is the standard of care and we follow it very seriously for stroke. You can see from the JHACHO report that we do very well in stroke care.
You can say what you want on this forum and YOU may even believe it was real but I really don't think that happened. Most people on this forum don't have the inside knowledge to argue against you, but I do. I know exactly what the stroke protocol is. I'm certified in stroke care and procedures at TVRH. And IF it did happen then it is a real one-off and should be reported to TVRH management with full names, dates etc so the event can be recorded and investigated.