changing your frame of reference standards of care in ha operations
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Changing Your Frame of Reference
Standards of Care in HA Operations
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“Two Standards of Care”
Understand “Two Standards of Care” Empiricism - relying on hunches more than
hard data Medical Supplies
• WHO Emergency Health Kit
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The Non-U.S. Standard of Care
Other people have the same values, morals, ethics
They lack the same resources• $8 per person per year
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Who Provides Health Care?
Nurses and community health workers Little to no supervision by a physician
In an HA op, there will not be the HM/MO to patient ratio we are used to:• train refugees/IDPs as community health
workers• train Marines, soldiers
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The Best Thing for Medical
Training Others to perform medical tasks is the most valuable use of our time• Oral rehydration• Health education• Disease surveillance
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Who is Treated?
No extraordinary measures Don’t do something if it cannot be sustained
• why resuscitate a heart attack victim if there’s no ICU for the patient to recuperate?
• Why resuscitate a premature infant if you cannot support him afterwards?
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How do you treat? IV therapy is extraordinary treatment
• expensive (man-hours, sterile supplies)
Greater reliance on oral and intramuscular medications
Convenience and ease of administration are forsaken for cost and durability of medicines
No lab or X-ray; no time for in-depth diagnosis (up to 60-100 patients per day per doc)
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What is Used to Treat?
No comfort meds (cold and cough remedies)
Low cost, low glamor antibiotics
DRUG PENICILLIN ROCEPHIN(high-speed,
low-drag)
PneumococcalResistance
20 % 5 %
Cost per personper treatment
$ 1 $ 100
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Strive Hard to Maintain the Two Standards of Care Do not stir up ethnic strife by inadvertant
favoritism Do not make the refugees more unwelcome
than they already are by exceeding the standard of care of the host country
Don’t set a standard you can’t sustain Set a policy for civilians/refugees injured by
USMC activities
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The WHO Emergency Health Kit
Developed by UNHCR, London School of Tropical Medicine, UNICEF, Doctors without Borders, International Red Cross)
Driven by prior failures Reliable, standardized, proven, durable,
inexpensive, appropriate Packaged for durability (can be air-dropped) Inventory used as model for whole nations’ drug
supplies
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WHO Kit Set-up
Designed to support 10,000 patients for 3 months
10 Basic Units: oral and topical medicines 1 Supplementary Unit: injectables
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Specialized Kits
Measles Vaccination Cold-Chain Kit• 5000 immunizations
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Supplies in the WHO Kit(selected list)
Antibiotics (very basic) Oral Rehydration Salts Pressure Sterilizer Kerosene Stove Weight / Height Charts Clinical Guidelines
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The Antibiotics
Penicillin V Penicillin G IM Penicillin G IV Ampicillin Septra Chloramphenicol Tetracycline
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Penicillin V
250 mg tabs (4000)• child 25 - 50 mg / kg / d divided q 6-8 h• adult: 1 tab po qid
Indications• Minor respiratory• head and neck infecitons• oral anaerobes, group A strep
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Penicillin G and Bicillin IM
Procaine IM only (1000 doses)• child: 25-50 k units / kg / d divided q 12 h• adult: 300 - 600 k units q 12 h
Bicillin (50 doses)• depot shot q 15-30 days
Indications• Mild-moderate versions of:
• respiratory infections• head & neck infections• oral anaerobes, strep
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Ampicillin PO / IM / IV Ampicillin PO (2000 tabs)
• child: 50 - 100 mg / kg / d divided q6h• adult: 2 - 4 g / d divided q6h
Ampicllin IM / IV (200 doses)• child: 100 - 400 mg / kg / d divided q4-6h• adult: 6 - 12 g / d divided q4-6h
Indications• moderate-severe respiratory infections• neonatal sepsis / meningitis• better gram-negative coverage than PCN
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Septa 80 TMP / 400 SMX tabs ORAL (20,000 doses)
• child: 8 - 12 mg TMP /kg/d divided BID• adult: 1 - 2 tabs PO bid
Indications:• mild-moderate respiratory conditions• skin infections• UTI• cholera and dysentery
Watch out for sulfa allergy and bone marrow suppression
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Chloramphenicol
Oral: 250 mg tabs (2000 doses) IM / IV 1 g injections (500 doses) Doses:
• < 1 wk: 25 mg/kg/day• > 1 wk: 50 mg/kg/day div q12h• > 4 wk: 50 mg/kg/day div q6h• child/adult: 100 mg/kg/day divided q6h
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Chloramphenicol continued
Indications• Excellent penetration of all body fluids• Use for all serious infections
• sepsis
• meningitis
• respiratory infections
• bone / joint infections
• typhoid, cholera, dysentery
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Excellent Bioavailability of Chloramphenicol
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Toxicity of Chloramphenicol
Reversible dose-dependent bone marrow suppression
Aplastic anemia (1:40,000 recipients)• occurs weeks to months later• not dose related
Gray Baby Syndrome• overdosing in infants --> flaccidity, cyanosis
Hemolytic anemia in G6PD deficiency
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Tetracyline
PO: 250 mg (2000 doses)• child: 25 - 50 mg/kg/day div q6h• adult: 250-500 mg q6h
Indications:• mild-moderate respiratory infections• cholera, dysentery, malaria
Toxicity• stains young teeth: don’t give to pregnants or kids < 8
yrs/ old
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