investigations for lung transplantation due to COPD / Emphysema
two-day stay at the CHUV Lausanne
As part of investigations for a possible lung transplant, had to I undergo a series of investigations, which could carry almost all of the University Hospital Basel. These twenty, sometimes unpleasant investigations could be carried out within 2 1 / 2 days well planned. Nevertheless, I still had to spend two days in the university hospital in Lausanne, the lung transplant center in western Switzerland.
The first time I had to cancel because the invitation had arrived a day before the appointment with me. The B-mailed as a post dated letter was a week earlier than stamped. That's all I have to say that regard.
Elaborate discussions clarification was trying a new to arrange an appointment. - We provisionally agreed a date for the 2 / 3 August 2010. The transplant coordinator PU wanted to contact them by telephone again, what he omitted, however, and instead to 2 August in the holiday traveling. This I learned by written confirmation. - Now, I still had some questions that I wanted to get answered before I travel to Lausanne. By email and in English, I tried the transplant coordination team to elicit a response. I sent three e-mail before I received after a week response.
To come to Lausanne, I had the IVB (disabled taxi) to travel. This cost for round trip Fri 3'300 .00.
On 2 August I went to Lausanne. At 12:00 clock, I had to be there. The driver pushed me in a wheelchair for information, where neither the Germans nor the English language was powerful. The proper notification is made then, fortunately, in German. The previously completed registration form was indeed there, but wanted to know all information about myself. Why so easy when it is complicated. As for these 2 days I wanted a internet connection, I immediately had to pay CHF 30.00. The transmission rate was measly 2000 kb / s. I have no words! TV or radio in the room are not there. If desired, you ask for it, of course, subject to charges. After registering I was in the 16th Stock sent. There I went to log 15 minutes where I was simply ignored. They avoided any eye contact. Overall, it took 30 minutes to me a room was assigned. The air in the corridor was so bad that I could hardly breathe. They wrote to me to a room number and pointed his finger in the direction I had to. There was actually a nurse who spoke English and showed me my bed in this five-bed room.
following schedule was handed to me:
first days (Underline = done, italics = subsequent change)
12.00 Clock blood test and ECG, in the room about 10 minutes
13.00 clock consultation Prof. Ris, transplant surgeon in the room (moved)
14.00 clock consultation Prof. Nicod , pulmonologist, in the room about 5 - 7 min .
17.00 clock consultation Dr. Wells, 2 Surgeon in the room (not published)
The date at 13.00 clock did not take place because a transplant had come between them. OK, I could understand.
second Underline days (done = Italics = subsequent Changes)
09.00 clock echocardiogram (deadline was repealed)
Zw. 11.00 - 13.00 clock Prof. Ris (inserted, not published)
13.00 clock anesthesiologist consultation (deadline was repealed)
13.00 clock consultation infectiologist (inserted) 15 min .
14.00 clock transplant coordinator (date has been repealed)
untimed: infectiologist
14.30 clock consultation Prof. Ris and anesthesiologist in the room about 20 minutes
summary that results in a time of 50 minutes which I had to stop for 30 hours in the hospital are available. The costs of this action amounted to about CHF 4'800 .00.
meals at the lowest level !
that such things still exist and it is unbelievable even in Switzerland. You could choose between the normal or the vegetarian menu. - Done.
The food was always cold and badly cooked. From lunch so I could eat only about a cup of cooked risotto. Of that I was not tired, but that no one cared. Later in the afternoon there was an unbranded instant coffee. Despite my hunger I could not choke down the dinner. Cold poached eggs in a savory tomato sauce and overcooked spaghetti. - Oh, I forgot the delicious appetizers, a soup loggers to mention. Probably mixed together from the remnants of the previous year. - Breakfast (the term does not quite) was served at 10.00 clock, and consisted of cold coffee and two slices of dry bread.
summary, I had within 22 hours, a handful of risotto and a coffee.
I've been in some hospitals in Africa, Asia and Europe. That was something I had never experienced.
nurses or prison guards?
Basically, all nurses spoke French. Of the five nurses spoke English only. I felt bad that it was either coffee or tea, not even if they asked for it. In the night I could hardly sleep feeling of hunger. Every hour, a guard came through the room and blinded by a flashlight in his face. It felt like in an institution. To clock around 6:00 I was awakened by the bedside Lame directly, about 10 cm intervened on my face. I was frightened so much that I hardly even breathe. The nurse looked at me stupid yet stupid and wanted to be the blood pressure and measure the temperature. Unbelievable. I sent them off course. should I have to clock at 9.00 Echokardigramm, I asked for breakfast, respectively. a coffee. I felt weakened considerably worse than the day before, and. From Basel I was accustomed to when you already had at 08.00 to investigations, it was already at 07.00 clock breakfast. Always great as in the upscale hotel. Here at the University Hospital was not obvious so I had to learn. My desire for food has been rejected saufrech. I should wait. I then explained that without breakfast, I would not budge. I asked for the German coordinator PU, which then with a woman arrived Dr. CB, which I had never seen before. This immediately started to be loud, reproached myself that I was asking questions that I asked things like food, or even respect. She found it impossible that I would have no family who accompany me to the hospital as well as other patients, or at least friends who could do this. This woman was completely thrown off track, offensive and saufrech, explained that they had other things to do than to deal with me. I am the paying customer, seemed to have forgotten the ol aunt. - PU, the coordinator then relented and said he would find it best when I treat myself in Zurich would leave.
Should I decide for a lung transplant, I would have to choose Zurich. There are only two possibilities, Lausanne and Zurich. In this case I had all the preliminary investigations, which have cost thousands of francs, have to endure me in vain, respectively. I would have to bear all in Zurich again. - But I find it very questionable, to allow a guilty as the CHUV hospital as a lung transplant clinic. In fact, the CHUV Lausanne belongs to the University Hospital of Geneva, at the worst hospital in Switzerland, according Comparis comparison list of Swiss hospitals. Well, I could not agree in any form.
hygiene in the toilet
As I should have to mention the toilet in the room. A small room, not even one square meter large, with a toilet bowl and a small sink equipped and dimly lit. As an addition there was a machine that cleaned bedpans. In was a shelf with all the chemicals that you need for stool samples. Stool samples were then taken straight to the toilet. The urine bottles were standing around there. It seemed so well that they went to the bathroom and then not wash their hands could, because a full bedpan of the other patients in the sink was.
Finally, it should not be surprised that I had sent a four-page written in German complaint to the Department of the CHUV. Almost three months I had to wait for a response. Well, this was so like it is fitting for a poor and primitive hospital. In short, in French written by a lawyer and do not address the objections, but talking around it, respectively. Issues torn from the context and then answered.
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