Seizure "bite sticks" on Amazon

Re: Seizure "bite sticks" on Amazon

Submitted by 3Hours2Live on Tue, 2013-03-05 - 06:14

Hi Nana6, Unfortunately, too much of the old school is returning. Local Medicaid medical providers in my area of Northern California have given old school practices new & nice sounding names, and much of it is being pushed as mandatory with any encounter. "Seizure bite sticks" recommendations are now in the minority of the literature, but they are hanging on, with a late uptick. Most are for non-epileptic seizures, but an authoritarian protocol provider will likely take it as for all seizures in a 50-50, all or nothing fashion. Delayed hints of the trend is visible in a few pages of a book search: http://www.google.com/search?q=seizure+bite+sticks&btnG=Search+Books&tbm=bks&tbo=1 (much like the return of ECT for epilepsy: http://www.google.com/search?q=%22But+ECT+does%2C%22+%22epilepsy+along%22&btnG=Search+Books&tbm=bks&tbo=1 ) I've had a few major squabbles with medical providers/enforcers the last few months over the old school notion that proven epileptics should be treated much as they were portrayed as being treated in older literature, including treatments in "One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest". The biggest threat of physical harm was posed to my relative by the providers" hostile reception to knowledge of my epilepsy, my not driving because of epilepsy, the providers' assumption that epilepsy prevents any durable power of attorney and that it requires Adult Protective Services. A verbal direct threat was they would expel my 85 year old relative from the care facilities that night during sub-freezing temperatures if I didn't alienate my rights they believed I shouldn't have because of their prejudices involving epilepsy. The area's Ombudsman for Senior services was unavailable, and had rubber-stamped their earlier lesser threats as allowable, so I sought immediate action from the federally mandated state crisis hot-line under the Senior's Protection Act. The hot-line answer was rather nonchalant, trying to assure me that they were only trying to intimidate me, using my epilepsy for leverage, and that they would "never" take such absurd actions that would lead to denial of medical services in any critical situation. My relative made it out alive, with many legal disputes pending, including complaints to the federal Health & Human Services Department of OCR. And now, on the News, the "never" of the faith of Protocol of the institution (much as many references yield to any institution's old-school protocol with ECT, seizures, epilepsy, and bite sticks): http://www.bakersfieldnow.com/news/local/Elderly-woman-dies-when-nursing-home-staff-refuses-CPR---194696271.html Tadzio