[House] Arm bands.

[RJ Johnson]

Wheeeeeee.

RJ

On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 11:59 AM, Robin Lee Powell
<rlpowell at digitalkingdom.org> wrote:
>
> 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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