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Children with measles usually aren't hospitalized. About 1 in 5 people with measles are hospitalized.

If he wasn't sick enough to be hospitalized, that was because there was nothing to be treated. Unfortunately, the hospital CANNOT explain the details of the case because of HIPAA, although the family is free to say whatever they want. Take anything you read about details in that context.

Measles is a virus. The most common reason to need antibiotics would be a secondary bacterial pneumonia, which happens in 1 of 20 cases. The parents would still be able to take him home against medical advice, though, if they chose to. Whether or not he continued to get sicker is a matter of rolling the odds.

Of course, we have it on good authority from another DCUM poster that bad things don't happen with measles infection because we now have modern plumbing, so, there's that. :roll:[/quote]

Children who gave measles who are showing signs of encephalitis should be transferred to a larger hospital’s PICU. This was not done.

The mother is a moron but at the same time the medical care he got doesn’t sound like it was sufficient. Since so many kids are going unvaccinated doctor’s need to be aware how to treat encephalitis when kids with measles develop it.

Ideally everyone would be vaccinated. But kids are the one paying the price for their idiotic parents. They deserve to get medical care[/quote]

Why do you think his providers had reason to think he had encephalitis, if there was a normal MRI of the brain?
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Ethan’s parents took him to the emergency room at Spartanburg Medical Center, where he was admitted overnight and put on antibiotics. Doctors at the hospital told the parents their son could be suffering from measles encephalitis, but they couldn’t be sure until they ran further tests the next day.

However, an MRI and spinal tap— a procedure that can diagnose conditions that affect the brain— did not give any indication of swelling or inflammation, the parents said. “He got the MRI in the morning, and it came back clean,” said Kristina.[/quote]

When the mother left with him, his mother says he was walking and drinking. With that and a normal MRI and a normal LP, hy would he have been transferred to a PICU, again? You think he would have had an accepting intensivist and a bed assigned/ Have you ever managed the inpatient medical management of a child?

Of course, he should be monitored for progression. That is what happened.

Of course, legally his parents could take him elsewhere, if they chose to. That also happened, albeit days later -- which is what he would have been monitored for in the hospital.

None of this speaks to medical mismanagement by the initial facility.[/quote]

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