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htatbr · 2017-06-21 · Original thread
I worked with quads as a college grad student. I also worked with HIV patients in US Peace Corps. You really need to watch for sepsis. Watch out for catheter infections. https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/the-connected-catheter-by... I would not allow any quad to use a catheter more than a short time. Spinal singularity will fail by increasing infections. A new DNA tech may change this. https://nanoporetech.com/products/smidgion https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OK5nNSwt3MA https://www.cs.columbia.edu/2016/dna-sequencing-in-classroom...

Sepsis now dominates the hospital ICU. It is what kills most AIDS patients too. Antibiotic resistance is driving costs. The ICU is now 40% of US hospital budgets. This is bankrupting state and federal budgets. This is why medicare, medicaid, obamacare are bankrupting US Govt (Fed and State) budgets. In 2013 health dominated state budgets.

State spending on health care now exceeds education spending. Look at NM's past budgets. http://www.usgovernmentspending.com/compare_state_spending_2...

​ Today 1/4 of US VA and Indian Health patients are diabetic. US Defense Dept. funding must now compete with Medicare. Today 40% of hospital costs are for growing ICU's and chronic disease. 1/2 of US Medicare cost = chronic disease from diabetes.

NM ICU's are dominated by chronic disease. http://www.amazon.com/Where-Night-Is-Day-Politics/dp/0801451...

40% of US hospital budgets now pay ICU/chronic disease costs. This cost is going up annually. http://money.cnn.com/video/technology/2013/07/24/fortune-tra...

Can MinION help pre ICU patients better control diet and sepsis infection. http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-06-03/deadly-inf... A complete bacterial genome with MinION http://www.nature.com/nmeth/journal/v12/n8/abs/nmeth.3444.ht...

Minion can find septic bacteria fast. https://genomemedicine.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s1...

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