[House] Arm bands.

Robin Lee Powell rlpowell at digitalkingdom.org
Thu Sep 29 11:59:58 PDT 2011


So the way it works is that each kit has 4 bands; they don't make
the kits.

Two of the bands are baby sized; one has the mother's info/ID/etc,
the other has the baby's medical record number.

The other two bands are adult sized, and have the mother's
info/ID/etc, to match with the baby.

They only band *after* the baby is born.  Obvy, RA gets one from
each baby.  This leaves two adult bands, one for each baby.

Now, they have a whole separate band set, the blue bands, that they
use for adoptive parents and such.  AFAICT, the blue band lets you
do everything *except* that they won't actually hand you the baby
unless someone with a true parent band is present.

Since that only matters if the babies are in the NICU, which is
becoming less likely by the hour, I don't actually expect that to
have any relevance at all; I think a blue band will be fine.

So, IMO it's real simple: if someone has to leave the operating room
with a baby, they get the true parent band that goes with that baby.
In almost all cases this will be RJ; the only case where I get a
true parent band is if RJ has already left with baby A, at which
point I might as well take baby B's band just to reduce everybody's
confusion.

If everything goes normally, RJ still gets both of them, because
he's on "leave with the babies" duty should something go suddenly
weirdly sideways.

Like I said, I *really* don't expect it to make any difference at
all in practice.  Even the difference between a blue band and a
visitor is minimal; basically they just check you harder at the door
if you're a visitor.

-Robin



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