Comments on: a bed you wouldn't want to wake up in...

a bed you wouldn't want to wake up in...

n o i s e s — Fri, 30 May 2003 19:43:56 -0800

isolation stretcher: staff at a japanese medical system support company demonstrate the company's 'isolation stretcher': "The highly protective stretcher, which costs 5.2 million yen (a half million dollars?), has been in demand since the spread of SARS" ...a 'bed' you wouldn't want to wake up in.

By: n o i s e s

n o i s e s — Fri, 30 May 2003 19:48:45 -0800

i'm sorry, i've no time to google up this post: i've got to go to work (& there's a typhoon working it's way through japan this a.m. too), but i hope this makes for an interesting thread.

By: Zebulun

Zebulun — Fri, 30 May 2003 20:07:40 -0800

5200000 JAPANESE YEN (JPY) = 43580.2883 US DOLLAR (USD) [bloomberg currency calc]

By: Wingy

Wingy — Fri, 30 May 2003 20:50:45 -0800

I had a feeling there must have been an extra zero that crept into that conversion. People aren't quite THAT crazy over SARS to start buying super-stretchers at a million bucks a pair.

By: Slithy_Tove

Slithy_Tove — Sat, 31 May 2003 06:46:59 -0800

I don't see the place for this expensive gadget. All SARS patients should be in respiratory isolation, preferably in a negative pressure room. If you have to transfer one somewhere else, put an N95 mask on the patient until he gets where he's going. Disposable N95 masks retail for about US$1, and surely much less in the large quantities that hospitals buy. SARS is a remarkably difficult little bug. Canada just had another rash of cases, after they thought they had it licked. It's not cool to eat civet cats, kids.

By: donpardo

donpardo — Sat, 31 May 2003 07:20:56 -0800

but kopi luwak is still ok, right? RIGHT?