mending cracked tubing on manual blood pressure cuff

[Smitty Two]

Nothing sweeter than a nice glass on glass syringe.

[Stormin Mormon]

Sugar packets from the cafeteria?

Who tastes syringes, anyway?

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Nothing sweeter than a nice glass on glass syringe.

[gregz]

You need to compare near the same time period. Activity and environment will alter your readings.

Greg

[The Daring Dufas]

But there seemed to be fewer nosocomial infections when everything was put in an autoclave and hospitals weren't forced to hire dumb asses. O_o

TDD

[The Daring Dufas]

You can't make a horror movie without a huge glass syringe and dripping big bore needle. ^_^

TDD

[Norminn]

Even without dumb asses, there were, and are, egomaniacs who cut people open and don't wash their hands enough. Recent experience in accompanying someone to have sutures removed after an injury (to FACE) and the SOB came in the room and started taking sutures out without washing hands AGAIN. This with constant publicity about the death rate caused by hospital acquired infections. So...he washed his hands after the previous patient? Then touched the dirty: door knob? Chart? Cell phone?

One of these days, after the socialists get done requiring all medical records to be electronic, the REAL faults in our healthcare system will begin to show up. Already fining hospitals that readmit Medicare patients too often. Go sosh!! I've seen terrible treatment just within my own family, not to mention 30 years in nursing. Off my soapbox now :o)

[The Daring Dufas]

I used to do a lot of work on automatic doors in hospitals and when the hospital opened after a remodel, I had a nurse chastise me for not wearing a face mask. I said OK then asked her to climb up my ladder and look at the top of the door operator housing which was covered with construction debris a lot of dust and dirt. She almost fell off the ladder from the shock of what she saw. I told her it would be a good idea to look at the tops of everything, including doors and any sort of shelf or bracket. ^_^

TDD

[fprot74]

The maker (Omron) no longer makes this-- they told me it's obsolete and tha= t no one uses them. [This is NOT true-- people can still buy these manual, = non-battery, non-electric blood pressure cuffs.]

Having talked via long-distance phone with a woman working for a parts comp= any that still has parts for my 1991-bought manual blood pressure cuff, I t= ook my unit apart since she told me how to do this-- she told me to immerse= the tubing and bulb under water to see where bubbles emerge- I did this an= d think the bulb or the screw valve at the bulb are now defective. When I p= ulled the bulb off of the barbed metal fitting that has on it the screw con= trol for the valve, the rubber of the bulb was ruined--> I'm sure the bulb = cannot now be re-used. You can see my bulb in the *middle* of the *top* row= here:

In trying to order only 1 of these bulbs, I fi= nd you have to buy about 100 of them so that's no route for me. Medical/hos= pital supply houses in my city don't have them. What other kind of hand bul= b pump would work for me? Maybe there's some other kind of hand bulb pump t= hat could substitute for the one that came with the unit. [You can see non-= battery, non-electrical, manual blood pressure cuffs, like mine, here: http= ://bit.ly/ODU7X2 This kind uses a stethoscope to hear the blood flow sound= s.] The woman I mentioned at the top of this posting told me the bulb and m= etal screw valve would cost $7.35 plus $3.50 for shipping/handling. Maybe y= ou know I'd find something similar and cheaper in my city. Tell me if you d= o. Thanks

[Stormin Mormon]

Autoclave the dumbasses?

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But there seemed to be fewer nosocomial infections when everything was put in an autoclave and hospitals weren't forced to hire dumb asses. O_o

TDD

[Stormin Mormon]

I read, years ago. Nurses are the cleanest, in terms of sterile procudure, and hand washing. Some doctors deserve to be taken out and shot. Firing squad armed with large bore needle, glass syringes, recently from the infectious wing.

This guy is my hero:

Christopher A. Young Learn more about Jesus .

Even without dumb asses, there were, and are, egomaniacs who cut people open and don't wash their hands enough. Recent experience in accompanying someone to have sutures removed after an injury (to FACE) and the SOB came in the room and started taking sutures out without washing hands AGAIN. This with constant publicity about the death rate caused by hospital acquired infections. So...he washed his hands after the previous patient? Then touched the dirty: door knob? Chart? Cell phone?

One of these days, after the socialists get done requiring all medical records to be electronic, the REAL faults in our healthcare system will begin to show up. Already fining hospitals that readmit Medicare patients too often. Go sosh!! I've seen terrible treatment just within my own family, not to mention 30 years in nursing. Off my soapbox now :o)

[Stormin Mormon]

Makes you wonder how clean the hospitals really are?

I was in a walmart, today. A couple guys with a shop vac, and several extension tubes were vacuuming the ceiling located vent grilles. They would find dirt at hospitals, for sure.

Christopher A. Young Learn more about Jesus

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I used to do a lot of work on automatic doors in hospitals and when the hospital opened after a remodel, I had a nurse chastise me for not wearing a face mask. I said OK then asked her to climb up my ladder and look at the top of the door operator housing which was covered with construction debris a lot of dust and dirt. She almost fell off the ladder from the shock of what she saw. I told her it would be a good idea to look at the tops of everything, including doors and any sort of shelf or bracket. ^_^

TDD

[Stormin Mormon]

There is great wisdom, on this group. Having endured years of allergy shots, they rank up there with albino penguins.

Christopher A. Young Learn more about Jesus

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You can't make a horror movie without a huge glass syringe and dripping big bore needle. ^_^

TDD

[Home Guy]

If you're saying that the leak was coming from the bulb (as per your water test), then that's pretty much what I predicted would be the problem.

Which I'm guessing is Madison WI.

$10 isin't a bad price.

[gregz]

I don't know what city, as if it matters.

Greg