I am neither endorsing nor critiquing the solution to staph. Rather, I am complaining about the lack of standards for carrying out ANY solution nationwide.
But since you brought it up, I will quibble with your statement:
“…However, if you have an infection (i.e. immuno-compromised) they won't put you on an OR table…”
I can tell you for a fact, that many patients had procedures while having low-grade, systemic (bacterial) infections. E.g., pre-op blood checks simply do not check for mycoplasmic (cell-wall deficient bacteria) infections.
In addition, I find it interesting that there are also disparities between manufacturer’s disqualification criteria on this. More on this later in another topic.
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