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hospital accidentally injects woman with cleaning fluid
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3chordcharlie
Diamond Member
Unfortunately, these incidents kinda come down to statistics.. millions of injections every year, and at least a couple of mishaps.
The scary part is, a lot of times the mishap probably goes undetected because the mistakenly injected substance doesn't cause any noticable ill effects to the patient (i.e. if you substitue one medicine for another, they may have similar side-effects, or no side-effects, and no one is the wiser, even though the mistake is just as 'big').
ReiAyanami
Diamond Member
we need tort reform to protect that hospital from frivilous lawsuits so the doctors and nurses can continue making stupid mistakes that kill ppl
simple hospital errors kill 40,000-100k each year, and that's a conservative estimate
simple hospital errors kill 40,000-100k each year, and that's a conservative estimate
forumJunkie
Senior member
wtf thats horrible....
shilala
Lifer
The story in the link said that they did just that, took measures to ensure it never happens again. If you're suggesting that the hospital assures that mistakes are never made, I'd love to see your plan for that. Unfortunately, humans make mistakes, and humans work in hospitals.
Even very competent professionals sometimes make mistakes. My doctor sent me home with a prescription a couple years ago, I was to take it in addition to the medication I was already taking. I always check up on meds before taking them, and in big red letters at webmd I saw "do not take this drug with *the other drug I was taking*". Turns out the effects could have been swift and severe.
Our family doctor has been fabulous, and I still have nothing but complete confidence in him. I told him about it, he apologized admitting he was unaware of the risk, and he hasn't killed anyone yet.
People make mistakes. Sometimes other people get killed because of it. It's life.
The hospital's insurance company will certainly take a massive hit, as it should be.
I can't imagine there are too many NON-toxic antiseptics...
so, say, the nurse who was attending the operation, and had NOTHING to do with filling the syringe or injecting it, should lose her job because some other guy made a mistake. Right.
I, too, am surprised that there aren't safety measures in place to prevent this kind of thing, but mistakes DO happen and you can't expect perfection from every single human being alive.
SacrosanctFiend
Diamond Member
And alot of those people would die without any intervention. We're not gods, we make mistakes. I've seen so many frivilous lawsuits, so please don't comment on something you don't know much about.
In this situation, I can't see how it could have happened, except for gross negligence.
waggy
No Lifer
There are easy things that can be done. Such as having the stuff for such a procedure AWAY from cleaning stuff. I don't know about you but we tend to keep such stuff seprete.
HOW they can mistake the cleaning fluid for this is what amazes me. Where was the checks? Didnt someone read what they were getting ready to inject?
yes mistakes happen. But something like this should never happen. this is not a oh i gave you the wrong pills. ITS i injected you with cleaning salution!
It's absolutely essential that the truth regarding this terrible even is revealed. Any attempt to cover it up would be criminally negligent on at least the same scale as the case itself.
However, it is may not necessarily be appropriate to dismiss all those involved - indeed, such action is well recognised as encouraging the covering-up of minor incidents, precisely to escape blame. One of the most important changes in philosophy in medical practice has been the development of an open culture of reporting, rather than one of closed doors and blame. Those involved should expect to get retraining in tasks such as administering injections, etc. and reasonably be expected to be suspended from duties until such retraining is completed.
Open reporting allows health care providers to recognise minor problems before they escalate into larger ones, and put appropriate safeguards in place.
E.g. There had been several instances in a hospital where a box of 'potassium chloride solution' had been found on an IV trolley (normally vials of sodium chloride would be used to flush IV lines to stop them clotting). If the potassium solution had been used instead it could have potentially been fatal. In the past the orderly that had stocked up the trolley would have been blamed. The modern solution was to investigate it's cause - the boxes of the vials were exactly the same, except for the name, and the vials were the same plastic, same shape and size, although with a different coloured label. The solution was to change the packaging of the potassium so it could never be confused - the fact that potassium must always be diluted before use made this easy: small vials of strong solution were withdrawn and replaced with large bags of dilute solution. Clearly, accidental administration of a fatal dose of potassium would be impossible with this system.
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