{"id":33064,"date":"2014-12-31T11:07:04","date_gmt":"2014-12-31T10:07:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/?p=33064"},"modified":"2014-12-31T11:07:52","modified_gmt":"2014-12-31T10:07:52","slug":"second-uk-ebola-patient-identified","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/2014\/12\/31\/second-uk-ebola-patient-identified\/","title":{"rendered":"The BMJ Today: Second UK Ebola patient identified, and how 3D printing could affect clinical practice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>The BMJ<\/em> has been tracking <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bmj.com\/ebola\">the developments of the Ebola virus outbreak throughout 2014<\/a>, and it continues to be in the news as the year draws to a close.<\/p>\n<p>Today, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bmj.com\/content\/349\/bmj.g7861\">Anne Gulland&#8217;s story updates us on the UK nurse who contracted Ebola<\/a> in Sierra Leone and has been admitted to the high level isolation unit at the Royal Free Hospital in London.<\/p>\n<p>The patient\u2014named in the media as Pauline Cafferkey, a public health nurse at Blantyre Health Centre in South Lanarkshire\u2014is the second person to be treated for Ebola in the UK.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The story explains how Cafferkey, who has been writing a diary of her time in Sierra Leone for the Scotsman newspaper, was transferred on a military plane to the infectious diseases unit at the Royal Free in the early hours of 30 December. This is in adherence with the UK\u2019s protocol for Ebola cases; the unit also treated the nurse Will Pooley, the UK\u2019s only other Ebola patient.<\/p>\n<p>England&#8217;s chief medical officer Sally Davies paid tribute to Cafferkey, saying she had been doing a \u201cfantastic job saving lives.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bmj.com\/thebmj\">thebmj.com<\/a> today, an editorial from senior fellow Mahiben Maruthappu and national medical director Bruce Keogh addresses <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bmj.com\/content\/349\/bmj.g7709\">the question of how 3D printing might affect clinical practice<\/a>. The piece draws on the example of Craig Gerrand, a\u00a0consultant orthopaedic surgeon at Newcastle\u00a0upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Trust, who last year used computed tomography guided 3D printing to develop a titanium pelvis for a patient with chondrosarcoma.<\/p>\n<p>The authors say 3D printing has the potential to &#8220;transform healthcare and clinical practice,&#8221; but acknowledge the &#8220;ethical, moral, and technical challenges&#8221; surrounding its usage. Expect to hear more about this in 2015 and beyond.<\/p>\n<p>Happy New Year to all.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Gareth Iacobucci<\/strong>\u00a0is news reporter for <\/em>The BMJ<em>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The BMJ has been tracking the developments of the Ebola virus outbreak throughout 2014, and it continues to be in the news as the year draws to a close. Today, Anne Gulland&#8217;s story updates us on the UK nurse who contracted Ebola in Sierra Leone and has been admitted to the high level isolation unit [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-secondary understrap-read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/2014\/12\/31\/second-uk-ebola-patient-identified\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5750],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-bmj-today"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33064","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33064"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33064\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}