Nurse Injects Coffee Instead of Blood Drip

[xBiffx]

I don't think that's an issue. Feed bags look totally different from blood bags regardless of their contents.

I'm curious why they had a feed bag full of milky coffee though.

I know they are different looks but they are also labeled differently, typically with different color labels. Color labels are widely used. I wasn't just talking about the contents. That might have been an issue anyways if the bags were opaque to begin with.

 

[SheHateMe]

I don't think blood bags or feed bags come without labels.

I also don't think coffee and milk would be something that would come in a feedbag administered at a hospital anyway. That stuff is typically formula. I know because my grandmother had a feeding tube while she was on hospice and it was a milky white substance (shut up!..)

 

[monovillage]

I don't think blood bags or feed bags come without labels.

I also don't think coffee and milk would be something that would come in a feedbag administered at a hospital anyway. That stuff is typically formula. I know because my grandmother had a feeding tube while she was on hospice and it was a milky white substance (shut up!..)

I've been with far too many people through hospice to make any fun of it. Such a tough job and bless the people that do it and have to deal with it all the time.

 

[ShawnD1]

This doesnt sound right to me. How do you confuse coffee with blood? And, why is there coffee in a drip bag?

This does sound awfully weird. IV coffee? I thought that was just a joke. I didn't know people actually did that. What else do they have in IV bags? Can people get IV vodka or IV orange juice?

 

[WelshBloke]

I know they are different looks but they are also labeled differently, typically with different color labels. Color labels are widely used. I wasn't just talking about the contents. That might have been an issue anyways if the bags were opaque to begin with.

I was just pointing out that even if you are colour blind there's still pretty much no way to mix the two up.

(well obviously not no way given the subject of this thread but you get my meaning)

 

[WelshBloke]

This does sound awfully weird. IV coffee? I thought that was just a joke. I didn't know people actually did that. What else do they have in IV bags? Can people get IV vodka or IV orange juice?

Not IV coffee, it was for a feed so presumably by a nasogastric tube or the like.

I'm still weirded out by the idea of a milky coffee feed though.