Dr who video diary
Even before the current crisis killed many of Liberia’s health professionals, there were fewer than fifty doctors working in the public health system in a country of more than four million people, most of whom live far from the capital.
Any emergency room in the US or Europe can offer such care, and can also treat patients in isolation wards.īoth nurses and doctors are scarce in the regions most heavily affected by Ebola. Patients who are vomiting or delirious are treated with intravenous fluids haemorrhagic symptoms are treated with blood products. For those able to take fluids by mouth, shock can often be forestalled by oral rehydration salts given by the litre. Nor did the nurses, still less their patients, receive what in Brussels, Boston or Paris would count as modern medical care.Įven without a specific antiviral therapy, the treatment for hypovolaemic shock – which occurs when there isn’t enough blood for the heart to pump through the body and is the end result of many infections caused by bacteria and some caused by haemorrhagic viruses – is aggressive fluid resuscitation. But even then it was known that the virus could be transmitted as the result of a failure to follow the rules of modern infection control: the nurses reused needles and did not wear gloves, gowns or masks, which were all in short supply.
The 1976 epidemic, for example, started in a mission hospital where Belgian nuns worked as nurses alongside Congolese colleagues. It’s true that many of those who have died were medical professionals. But it isn’t clear that the received wisdom is right. The Ebola virus is terrifying because it infects most of those who care for the afflicted and kills most of those who fall ill: at least, that’s the received wisdom. Many became delirious and started to haemorrhage from the mouth, nose, vagina, at sites where intravenous lines had been placed, even from the eyes. Patients became dehydrated as a consequence of fever, vomiting and diarrhoea. It was first described in 1976 in rural Congo, not far from the Ebola River, as an acute-onset syndrome characterised by complaints of weakness, followed by fever and abdominal pain. Ebola is a zoonosis – it leaps from animal hosts to humans – which is caused by a filovirus (a thread-like virus that causes internal and external bleeding). The country is in the midst of the largest ever epidemic of Ebola haemorrhagic fever. The Diary can be pre-ordered now at your local comic book specialty shop, and is scheduled to release in early October, 2014.I have just returned from Liberia with a group of physicians and health activists. The author has also included holidays celebrated by the US and Canada that the Doctor also celebrates. The diary includes the Doctors adventures and photos of the 12th Doctor.
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The Day of the Doctor sees the reappearance of David Tennant and Tom Baker as 10th and 4th Doctors and is full of allusions to the history of the series-'a love letter to fans.' The Time of the Doctor, the 800th episode of the series, features the final appearance of Matt Smith and the formal introduction of Peter Capaldi, as the new Doctor. The Night of the Doctor shows the regeneration of the 8th Doctor (Paul McGann) into the War Doctor (John Hurt). Read through 120 pages of Doctor Who history as each character and his journeys are explained and broken down to include, The Night of the Doctor, The Day of the Doctor and, The Time of the Doctor. The adventures of Doctor Who in his time traveling blue police box have been recorded in the 2015 Doctor Who Diary. The Diary goes through the timeline of the various characters who have been the Doctor, showing how they step into their new roles traveling through time to come to the aid of those in need. Fans will have an opportunity to delve in the Doctor's history with the 2014 Doctor Who Diary from Mallon Publishers, available exclusively through Previews.