Muh Muh Muh My Corona (virus)

Are we talking ranch or 1000 Island?

 

Au contraire

Tennessee limiting monoclonal antibody treatment to unvaccinated residents

(When you read it you kinda get why, but damn if it still doesn’t feel like punishing responsible people.)

 

Prep-pandemic by a couple of years, I had a pacemaker installed as outpatient surgery. Surprised the hell out of me.

 

It saves the insurance company money.

 

My mother is getting a knee replacement done about a month from now, and like maumann, the only way it won't be an outpatient procedure is if there are some sort of complications during the surgery. She's expected to go home same day.

 

Q Cheese

 

It's also a helluva good way to avoid picking up a hospital-acquired infection of any type.

 

I had double hernia surgery and wife had gall bladder removed as outpatients.

 

Nosocomial infections are always a concern. It's even more true when the hospital is full of Covid patients. True. It's also true that surgical techniques today allow for much less damage in the process of getting to what is wrong and fixing it. They are able to perform remote microsurgery and not make large incisions, so people heal more easily and with fewer complications. 23 hour admits are structured that way because your procedure is then billed as one day in the hospital. That policy has become prevalent because the insurance companies don't want to pay twice as much. The fact is that another day to monitor and care for the patient would be good for them, but it isn't medically necessary so it's gone.

The bottom line, though, is that they do 23 hour admissions because if it goes a minute over 24 they have to pay for two days, and every hospital in America does 23 hour admits.

 

I saw a video of a laparoscopic cholecystectomy on Youtube years ago. Surgeon was videoed as he performed it and narrated what was on the video screen. "See that lovely robin's egg blue organ? That's the gall bladder, and we're going to take that right on out."

 

I had outpatient joint replacement surgery last September. Checked in at 6 a.m., surgery at 7:30, in the recovery room by 9, up and walking with a walker by 10 and on the way home by 11:30. Even stopped at an I-5 rest area where I used the bathroom by myself.

Utterly amazing. Had similar surgery in 2006 and was in the hospital for four days.