Giants player could lose foot due to MRSA

[CarolinaSunday]

Boy, there's a chart I'd like to see.

There actually is a chart... This represents the absolute maximum you can recover. You're only going to get maximum recovery if you lose complete use of the body part. For example, an amputation. The "weeks" refers to the amount of your weekly wage loss benefits (which is 2/3 of your average weekly gross wages in the year prior to your injury. So, if you made $1,000.00 a week prior to your injury, your wage loss benefit would be $666.67).  This is North Carolina only, so not exactly applicable to the Giants player, but it can give an idea.

[frash.exe]

MRSA is some real scary poo that is going to be just harder and harder to deal with in the future in general

[ThPantherFan]

Injections outside of the clinical area isn't unusual.  How about in an accident when IV's have to be administered or drugs through injection at the accident scene?  It's not because of not being in a sterile environment but the not proper disinfecting the injection site.  Don't want to panic those that take insulin, or other injections at home or elsewhere. 

[KSpan]

http://www.nfl.com/news/story/0ap3000000553694/article/mrsa-infection-leaves-giants-daniel-fells-in-dire-situation?campaign=Twitter_atn

 

This is extremely scary and will effect all teams going forward including the Panthers. IMO,  there should be zero injections given outside of controlled sterile Healthcare facility. Giving an injection within a stadium is lunacy. 

The issue lies with proper hygiene and sterile procedure when giving the injection as well as overall cleanliness of the locker and training rooms.  Infection control is always a challenge in areas with high skin and body fluid exposure (sweat, blood, etc) since people are the initial sources of these bacteria. From a protocol standpoint, sterile technique, and the tools associated with it, is the same in any clinical setting (hospital, training room, etc), and proper technique is by far the biggest factor in infection prevention.

What you propose would preclude the giving of hydration IVs, vaccinations, or any other subdermal treatment anywhere but a hospital, and that's simply not necessary with proper cleaning protocol. That said, places like professional locker rooms should absolutely be treated as bacterial breeding grounds and the league should amp up sanitation protocol requirements to the max.

I hope Fells makes a full recovery. I had necrotizing fascitis as a kid (the flesh-eating bacteria - Google it if you feel like seeing some nasty stuff) and about lost my left foot. It's incredibly scary to be told that they may have to remove a limb.

[5158Poundin]

MRSA is serious business and should be a top concern for the NFL in terms of player safety.  I had a friend, coworker, who 2 years ago was in the fight of his life after a scratch on his leg was infected with MRSA.  He was in ICU for weeks and was at serious risk of losing his leg and his life.  He fortunately has recovered but has a significant part of his lower leg impacted and has to be very vigilant.  Given players are in the types of environment they are in and can succumb to even smaller injuries like nicks or cuts - this is always a risk.  I really hope this player can recover and pray he is able to do so without losing a limb but this is no joke and he is in the fight of his life.  Antibiotic resistance microorganisms is a huge medical issue and the treatments are equally hard on the body if a person succumbs to an infection like MRSA. Praying for this man and hope he recovers.

[Match.com]

Someone's getting a nice injury settlement

nothing is nice about losing a Foot...

[5158Poundin]

Nothing nice about getting an antibiotic resistant microbial infection.  It can be life or death nowadays due to overuse and under compliance in the use of antibiotics over the last 30 years.

A mere scratch could go in the absolute wrong direction and change someone's quality of life quickly if an antibiotic resistance microorganism infects the scratch.  

[Asurfaholic]

I wouldn't trade my foot for a billion dollars. 

 

1 billion? 

 

You can have my foot and my left nut for that tidy sum....

[RJK]

Damn poo is scary...this is why if you have the option to put off surgery and rehab an injury you do it. hospitals are ripe with infections

[Navy_football]

I wouldn't trade my foot for a billion dollars. 

 

JakeR6, you don't need a foot or to walk with a billion dollars. Heck, you could buy a new foot.

There's only one appendage I couldn't sacrifice for that kind of money.