MRSA - Infection Control in Dialysis Settings

My beau's mom is really sick. She has diabetes, high blood pressure, she lost 2 toes to diabetes in April. Since then she apparently has had a few bone infections. She is also on dialysis 3 days a week. To say she is unwell is the understatement of the year. Tex likes to know the bottomline, the worst case scenario, so he can prepare himself and his younger siblings. He won't like hearing that 23% of dialysis patients die due to MRSA but that appears to be the fact.

Infection Control in Dialysis Settings
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Slide #4 - 23% of those who get MRSA in a dialysis setting die. :(

Slide #7 - Cause-specific hospitalization rates among hemodialysis patients, 2004-05:
• Vascular access infection = 132 admissions / 1000 pt-yrs
• Bloodstream infection = 102 admissions / 1000 pt-yrs
• Pneumonia = 86.3 admissions / 1000 pt-yrs

Since 1993, rates have increased for:
Bloodstream infection (+29%)
Cellulitis (+24%)
Pneumonia (+19%)

Kanye West is CRAZY!

Kanye West Storms Stage, Protests Taylor Swift's Victory Over Beyonce At MTV Awards

UPDATE:
When Beyonce won Video of the Year, she called Taylor out to the stage to give her interrupted speech instead.

PREVIOUSLY:
Taylor Swift got a surprise when she accepted the award for Best Female Video at Sunday night's MTV Video Music Awards. After Swift, looking shocked, beat out Lady Gaga, Katy Perry, Kelly Clarkson and Beyonce for the honor, she took the stage and accepted the award. As she was thanking MTV, Kanye West ran up on stage, took her microphone, and said Beyonce had been robbed for her "Single Ladies" video. "Beyonce had one of the best videos of all time!" Swift stood silently holding her trophy, cameras cut to Beyonce looking stunned in the crowd, and MTV then cut to break.


This is the hair of a crazy man.
What is wrong with this fool?!? Why can he not go anywhere without causing a scene and embarassing people? A few years ago I thought his outbursts were just lame publicity stunts designed to sell more of his own CD's. Now I think there is something wrong with him, perhaps neurologically or psychologically. It's like he's hyperactive with a touch of Tourette's or maybe he's just bipolar or schizophrenic. Whatever the case, he needs help and he needs to be medicated or banned from awards shows.