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Nurse throws living donor's kidney into the trash

brainhulk

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http://news.yahoo.com/official-kidney-ohio-transplant-put-trash-070240551.html

A health commissioner says a nurse accidentally disposed of a kidney from a living donor at an Ohio hospital that later suspended its kidney transplant program.
The University of Toledo Medical Center suspended the program after the botched transplant earlier this month.
The Blade newspaper (http://bit.ly/P0XEIt ) reported Friday a kidney donated by a man to his older sister was thrown away with medical waste in what medical experts describe as a rare accident. The Toledo-Lucas County health commissioner confirms a nurse disposed of the kidney.
A hospital official has said doctors tried unsuccessfully for at least two hours to resuscitate the organ in an attempt to make it usable.
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how fucking stupid do you have to be to throw out an organ like that. jesus fucking christ, if she's that absent minded during surgery she has to be a complete danger to society the rest of the time.

oh and this is one of those rare occasions where I fully support suing the hospital for all it's worth.
 
Broheim said:
how fucking stupid do you have to be to throw out an organ like that. jesus fucking christ, if she's that absent minded during surgery she has to be a complete danger to society the rest of the time.

oh and this is one of those rare occasions where I fully support suing the hospital for all it's worth.
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This.
She's retarted
 
"Damnit - I hate it when I am done putting something back together and have extra parts. I'll just throw this away and hope it wasn't something important."
 
We've all been there, maybe not throwing a kidney away but we've all exhibited some degree of absent-mindedness. The saying - throw the baby out with the water - didn't come out of nowhere, it actually happens. I've seen newborns thrown in the garbage while the parent walked away with the dirty diaper, they realize it almost instantly, except in this case the kidney died.
 
I'm sure the nurse feels terrible. It was a mistake people. If anything, it shows we shouldn't be stressing out healthcare workers the way we do because of how important their job is.
 
Broheim said:
how fucking stupid do you have to be to throw out an organ like that. jesus fucking christ, if she's that absent minded during surgery she has to be a complete danger to society the rest of the time.

oh and this is one of those rare occasions where I fully support suing the hospital for all it's worth.
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/this

it really blows my mind. The conversation with the family had to be interesting.



OverVolt said:
I'm sure the nurse feels terrible. It was a mistake people. If anything, it shows we shouldn't be stressing out healthcare workers the way we do because of how important their job is.
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and she should feel terrible. she should also be out of a job and not work in the nursing field again (well at least not in surgery).

Yes people make mistakes and you should forgive them. but then there are different levels of mistakes. giving him grape jelly when he asked for strawberry? now that's a forgivable mistake. throwing away a liver you just took out becuase you are a fucking idiot? no you don't forgive or forget that.
 
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Being in the field, it will be interesting to hear the play by play of how this happened. If the transplant program was shut down there must have been multiple failures in communication or something along those lines. She should at least be transferred to another department, one that doesn't invlove patient care for now. Sad situation.
 
Imagine donating a kidney only to learn they accidentally threw it away. Facepalm doesn't even begin to explain the feeling.
 
JohnnyGage said:
Being in the field, it will be interesting to hear the play by play of how this happened. If the transplant program was shut down there must have been multiple failures in communication or something along those lines. She should at least be transferred to another department, one that doesn't invlove patient care for now. Sad situation.
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don't these sorts of operations happen fairly close to each other - like across the hall or something and simultaneously, with everyone knowing they're working on a 'kidney transplant', not a uh kidney trashing.

well at least the guy & his sister are probably going to get a shitload of money and free medical care somewhere else.
 
This is usually the case I believe. Plus, usually the only kidney being removed is the one for the transplant. The recipient keeps his/her non functioning kidneys, so one kidney goes from donor to donor--not donor to trash can. So for this to happen is a pretty egregious error. Hence the shutting down of a transplant program at a big university. There had to be some kind of loss of policy/communication or something along those lines. Plus the staff tends to be highly trained in this area as well. So, someone just throwing a kidney in the trash nonchalently probably didn't happen as simply as reported. Although if this did happen, the RN will need to find a new line of work. I suggest truck driver school...
 
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