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Originally Posted by LTHFAdvocate
No, Jillio, what that means is the information isn't being remembered by implanted children in their adulthood. That doesn't mean it wasn't given to them, that doesn't mean it wasn't given to their families.
Tracking people down 10 years after surgery (or even less than 2 years after surgery, as I just did for one retrospective review) is no easy task. The people most likely to have up-to-date contact information is the manufacturers, they are the places people with implants will continue to have consistent contact as the order upgrades/supplies.
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You don't engage in any longitudinal research regarding implanted indiviuals?
Don't youthink soemthing as important as receiving the vaccine and being made aware of the risks is important enought to stress to the point that it will be remembered? It would appear that it not ionly is not being stressed, but that the ball is being dropped by the medical community in insuring that the vaccination has been completed prior to surgery.
You know, my son has several life threatening allergies to antibiotics. One dose has the potential to put him into anaphylactic shock and end his life. While I might have had to look the names of the offending medications up (there are 5 of them), I always had ready access to that information in the case of an emergency. Now that he is an adult, he has access to that information, as well as his vaccination records, and any other pertinent medical information.
My point being.....why do so may people seem to be unaware of medical information that is crucial and important?