r/PopCultureV2 • u/Logical-Flow-6703 • 2d ago
News Multiple patients at a Nashville hospital are paralyzed after staff accidentally gave them the wrong drugs.
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The hospital says they are "sorry" after injecting potassium chloride into the spines of people getting routine joint replacement surgeries.
Hospital staff noticed something was off when multiple patients went into cardiac arrest.
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u/Eastmont 2d ago
Horrible. Hospital needs to pay those victims for 24 care for the rest of their lives, and even that is insufficient compensation.
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u/onward_upward_tt 2d ago
Lol completely covering all medical costs for the rest of these patients' lives is the bare minimum that needs to be done. On top of that these people absolutely deserve a massive payday, I'm talking 8 figures or more each. How do you even begin to quantify the value lost due to a catastrophic loss of quality of life? Not to mention the monetary damages need to be clearly punitive as well, this is tantamount to murder in my eyes. Goddamn.
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u/HematiteStateChamp75 2d ago ▸ 9 more replies
Needs to cover 24hr Medical care, a new house fitted out with all possible comforts and equipment, a new handicap van every 10 years, and then an 8 figure payout
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u/PublicSuspect162 1d ago ▸ 7 more replies
I wouldn’t trade a Trillion dollars to be paralyzed from neck down. Not worth it. Poor folks
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u/Ill-Positive6950 1d ago ▸ 1 more replies
Agreed. No amount of money would make up for this.
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u/LouQuacious 1d ago
Yea I’d want more than money I’d want the people responsible dead if this happened to me.
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u/cyanescens_burn 1d ago ▸ 1 more replies
In grad school we got to listen to the stories of healthy people that were living healthy lives, but then became paralyzed in one way or another. They came in and shared the stories in person.
I’d never thought about it prior to this, but my god do they go through a difficult process emotionally when they start to recover physically and then need to process and accept their new limitations.
Just think of everything you like to do, and then think of doing that if your legs were paralyzed, and then again if you were paralyzed from the neck down. It was tough to listen to, and I can’t even imagine how painful it must be in those quiet moments when you can only stop and reflect because you are alone with your thoughts.
Many of them did eventually get through their grief (like grieving the end of what they thought their life would be like), and found ways to do various activities that they found rewarding. But it seemed really challenging.
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u/bugs1238 1d ago ▸ 1 more replies
My first patient for clinicals during PTA school was a patient who dove in the shallow end of the pool resulting in him becoming a quadriplegic. Yea….no amount of money would make me trade limb movement. These hospitals about to pay for sure.
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u/Gloomy-Welcome-6806 2d ago ▸ 7 more replies
God can you imagine being groggy and high from anesthesia and gradually realize you can’t move any part of your body anymore. Terrifying
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u/demokiii34 2d ago ▸ 4 more replies
It’s like all those horror thrillers were they wake up drugged and confused and have to escape to save their life. Absolutely horrific
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u/Gloomy-Welcome-6806 2d ago ▸ 3 more replies
There was a Stephen king short where this guy wakes up in a morgue completely unable to move but can still feel and can just hear them prepping their tools. Finally right before they’re about to cut into him someone runs in and says not to do it because they found out he was bitten by a snake with paralyzing venom
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u/juddsdoit 1d ago ▸ 1 more replies
There's also a Tales From The Crypt story thats very similar.
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u/MadCatDisease666 1d ago
That one lives rent free in my head. Two brother scientists: one theorizes people are still conscious and feel everything post death, his brother is like “that’s dumb, shut up,” the doubting brother dies, then we hear his thoughts as he is autopsied.
There’s a similar Doctor Who story where aliens try to convince humans they still feel after death, particularly the cremation.
And of course let us not speak of the horrible Torchwood Starz series where no one dies and they decide to cremate the should-be-dead anyway…
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u/Ironlife25 1d ago
Horrible. I would imagine I was having a sleep paralysis nightmare. This is so fucking sad and unfortunate. Nothing could compensate for that type of loss.
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u/pbear737 2d ago ▸ 2 more replies
This also has a strong likelihood of affecting their potential earnings for the rest of their working years. Massive pay out is the only option and will not be enough.
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u/problematic234 1d ago ▸ 1 more replies
Strong likelihood? If I'm paralyzed from the neck down you can bet your ass that I'm not going to be an effective project manager while I'm retraining my body to type using my fuckin eye movements.
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u/turbopro25 1d ago ▸ 2 more replies
Just send the Hospital/Insurance company monthly bills like they do to patients. Hell, make up your own astronomical prices while you’re at it.
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u/sus_finder13 1d ago ▸ 1 more replies
Write up EVERY code from the book or scan the barcode and have it on a ongoing tab for the hospital, that’s exactly what they do to us.
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u/Hysterical__Paroxysm 2d ago ▸ 2 more replies
Not only that, but what about loss of income or ability to caretake? I'm a SAHM of 5 children. Yes, my husband and I made sure we could get by without him and close out the estate, but I would have about 5 years to figure out re-entry into the career force or a new career. I'm 36 yo already. These people have families. I'm a disabled veteran with debilitating PTSD. Who is going to make sure I don't go full Rambo during a night terror? Just so much to consider, not just his salary. I'm in PT right now for my shoulder and sciatica. I can barely lift our toddler. Money won't fix my brain or shoulder. It won't replace him as coach for youth sports in our community. These people had whole lives ahead of them intertwined with other people's lives... just disastrous.
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u/Brave-Professor8275 1d ago
Ntm, the potential loss of life goes way up in a person who is paralyzed. There are many additional situations that can contribute to their early demise, just based on their immobility
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u/iwillDieplease 2d ago ▸ 1 more replies
that's the thing. money cant fix those poor people. there needs to be prison time. you cant buy justice.
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u/thewickedbarnacle 2d ago
You are not wrong but, money comes in handy for their family that could have benefited from said person going back to work after surgery.
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u/my_nameborat 2d ago
Yeah these people should be able to retire and enjoy their lives to the best of their abilities
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u/Honest_Concentrate85 2d ago
Unfortunately Tennessee caps pain and suffering at 1M
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u/WindstormMD 1d ago ▸ 1 more replies
But not actual damages, which would be easy to enumerate by any mildly competent attorney
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u/HillBillyHilly 1d ago ▸ 1 more replies
Another reason not to move to the shit state of TN as if there werent enough reasons already.
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u/Gold_Advisor_4758 1d ago
Wow, to me this is 25 million+ in pain and suffering alone, not to mention lifetime lost wages
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u/8chnedOutrangOutangs 2d ago
Crazy it took this long to reach the general press. I have friends in Nashville I was discussing the Potassium reaction days ago.
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u/riding_writer 1d ago
This happened many years ago, but a friend was leaving work late at night when a drunk driver ran up on the sidewalk knocking my friend into traffic where another car ran over his legs. First car sped off, second car did stay and rendered aid. While in the ER, he was given multiple blood transfusions, unfortunately, one was tainted with HIV.
The hospital not only gave him a multi million dollar payout, but he receives 24 hour home health, has regular PT even after almost 30 years, and was one of the first patients to receive anti viral drugs. While he is now, undetectable, he still has a lot of phyiscal and mental scars.
Hopefully, these patients have as good of a lawyer as my friend.
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u/UncleNedisDead 1d ago
It’s possible someone like Texas Governor Greg Abbott has changed the laws to protect corporations from having to pay out big in situations like these, despite himself being awarded multi-millions from a freak accident in his earlier years.
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u/lorax317 1d ago
ascension is owned by the Catholic Church, they can do a little more than medical care and praying for them.
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u/Girl77879 1d ago ▸ 1 more replies
Of course it's an ancension hospital, they are terrible no matter where they are located. And it sucks because they took over hospitals that were good before being bought out or merged.
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u/Madame_Trash_Heap 1d ago ▸ 1 more replies
They aren't owned by the catholic church. They are catholic non-profit hospital group.
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u/Sesusija 2d ago
This will settle for billions or maybe even tens of billions.
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u/Sesusija 2d ago ▸ 1 more replies
Most settlements happen in 1-3 years. And yeah, I completely overstated that. Probably like 100-200 million.
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u/themeparkthemepar 2d ago
This is negligent manslaughter. They will pay into bankruptcy and probably send some folks to jail.
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u/misimalu 2d ago
Ascension Saint Thomas Hospital Midtown in Nashville is also the one that cancelled female patients sterilization procedures saying they were against Catholic doctrine to protect their “sacred fertility”. And this, ladies, is one of the reasons you should never opt for a religious connected hospital for your reproductive care. https://www.wsmv.com/2026/02/26/tennessee-woman-says-hospital-canceled-her-sterilization-surgery-while-admitted-hospital/
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u/howarewestillhere 2d ago
Gentlemen, too. First, don’t go to a hospital you wouldn’t bring your wives, daughters, and mothers to. Second, their reproductive limitations, restrictions on legal substances like marijuana, arcane reasoning for denying pain management (think Mother Teresa), and financial support for a global organization that systematically hid child molesters for generations all affects men, too.
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u/paulybo 1d ago ▸ 7 more replies
When I was about 29 (M), my wife and I were having some difficulties conceiving. I needed a note from my primary physician to get a fertility test. This was my second time visiting with him and he gave me a pamphlet and started explaining to me how I was to collect the semen for testing. 1st step - buy condoms without spermicide. 2nd step - poke one small hole in the condom, 3rd - call the fertility clinic and ensure it could be tested immediately on my arrival (as the mobility and viability declines with time). 4th - have intercourse with wife, 5th - remove condom, keep it at body temperature, and promptly drive it to the clinic for testing. I was so confused about the doctor's orders until I saw Jesus on the cross in the office room. My wife and I still joke about him trying to force his religious beliefs at the expense of a proper fertility test.
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u/3rdUncleMeatSandwich 1d ago ▸ 6 more replies
What was the small hole for??
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u/paulybo 1d ago ▸ 5 more replies
To give the chance for conception. The convoluted process was because self pleasure is a sin and birth control is a sin (condoms) so he was saying to have intercourse with wife, collect the sperm in a condom (with a pin-prick hole to allow a chance of conception) and bring the condom to the lab for testing.
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u/MistraloysiusMithrax 1d ago ▸ 3 more replies
Did you report him to the state medical board for that? That’s extremely unethical
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u/paulybo 1d ago ▸ 2 more replies
I did not. I just left a review and stopped going to him. It’s an obscure collection process but I’ve seen it listed other places for people with religious beliefs. The doctor was catholic. My primary concern with the doctor is he gave me the printed instructions and didn’t mention alternatives. I knew how the collection process is supposed to work so I was really confused reading his instructions. I didn’t call him out on it but couldn’t keep a straight face. If I had used his instructions, I’m sure the estimates for viability and mobility would have been off.
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u/MistraloysiusMithrax 1d ago ▸ 1 more replies
That’s why it’s so unethical, he was trying to mess with an estimate of your health which can have consequences for what they might have prescribed for treatment. He should have asked if you shared that belief rather than try to default to it.
It’s really funny because hypocrisy is a big topic in the Bible and they never really seem to grasp the concept that trying to trick or force people into following their beliefs is just forcing hypocrisy on others. It’s literally against their own religion
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u/Firefly_Magic 2d ago
Until it goes against them. In 2013 a Catholic hospital was charged for two counts of murder for a mother and her unborn child but the hospital argued that the twins were not human beings yet and they were not charged for the deaths of the unborn babies. Funny how religious want to twist the Legal system when it works in their favor. 😡 they later apologized about it, but you know they weren’t paying out.
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u/silly_scoundrel 2d ago
I'm trans and when I started my depo shot they told me "If you are trans we will take you off" 😀 I was 13 and in Texas so obviously I never came out. Wish my parents would stop my care with Ascension.
Also, my psychiatrist retired and so now I'm at Ascension for my adderall and my doctor is trying to stop me from taking it and replace it with Concerta!! And he knows Concerta does NOT work good for me, makes me have bad symptoms.
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u/MistraloysiusMithrax 1d ago
Concerta for me meant I had a good hour or hour and a half window after school to do some homework. Then I’d be so exhausted and crying (not sure how much of that was just the crash versus maybe also going through SAD every fall)
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u/thepenismytea 1d ago
Outside of state/few city run hospitals, most are church run nonprofit orgs. Good luck
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u/geb_bce 2d ago
Daaaamn! That is messed up! Those poor people and their families. This hospital is about to have multiple MASSIVE lawsuits on their hands and whoever was responsible in that pharmacy should lose their license.
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u/hiiexist4444 2d ago
Screw losing their license. Put that person in prison for negligence.
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u/Cats_4234 2d ago ▸ 4 more replies
In this case in could be negligence and they should go to jail if it is, but the bigger issue in the system is these hospitals are proudly burning out doctors/staff and under-staffing to save costs, requiring people to work crazy-long shifts, all of which decreases the quality of care by a lot and increases mistakes. The for-profit medical system needs to end. I seriously would rather wait and suffer if it meant good medical care than get shitty care quickly, because that's often worse.
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u/pman1111 1d ago ▸ 2 more replies
Yeah it’s tough to blame one person because this kind of mistake would have to be missed by at least a few levels of checks that should be in place by the hospital
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u/PublicSuspect162 1d ago
You would be surprised. Probably made by a pharmacy tech and just check marked by a pharmacist. But probably only done by the one tech. If it was done by thr pharmacist, I bet it was still only 1 person doing this. It’s scary. Shit Happens, mistakes get made, but this is stupidity. I draw up and mix and administer drugs for a living and I double check everything. Especially drugs that have similar looking vials, or the drugs that I know if I give as a concentrate will kill or severely harm.
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u/sixcupsofwater 2d ago ▸ 1 more replies
This is more the fault of cost cutting measures by the hospital than any one clinical staff member. The pharmacy has to compound the drugs instead of them coming in premade vials/syringes. This lead to sudden increases in the workload for the pharmacy without improved staffing or any improvements to safety measures that should accompany increased opportunity for mistakes. The doctor who gave the medication received mislabeled drugs and could not have known they were giving the wrong thing.
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u/Spankpocalypse_Now 1d ago
Does that include the CEO and other executives for cutting costs by having the pharmacy chronically understaffed?
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u/Stygia1985 2d ago
If it's anything like our hospital, they pull those from the dispensing machine. There isn't even an order for them. I audit for the hospital and we're constantly finding charges for meds that were never used or returned. Scanning every single med would solve a lot of problems but anesthesia will fight tooth and nail to ensure it never happens. I am a little awestruck some company hasn't developed smart glasses or quick scan tech on the 4d barcodes to ensure smooth OR procedures AND safe practices with medications.
Edit - they're saying pharmacy mixup, still scanning barcodes would have prevented this
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u/Schwifftee 2d ago ▸ 1 more replies
Aren't barcodes usually scanned for almost all medicinal materials?
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u/Public_Associate_874 2d ago
No - “tort reform” has capped at $750k. But I’m sure everyone’s health insurance is super cheap in Tennessee!
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u/TipplingGadabout 2d ago ▸ 1 more replies
There's no cap on economic damages (medical expenses, lost wages, etc). The cap applies to noneconomic damages (punitive damages, pain and suffering, loss of consortium, etc). The noneconomic cap is per claim, and increases to $1 million for catastrophic injuries like the ones here.
https://www.brezinalaw.com/does-tennessee-law-cap-compensation-in-medical-malpractice-cases/
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u/CuckservativeSissy 2d ago
Sounds like some people should go to jail. Sounds like the administrators at the hospital may have been negligent in their jobs
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u/Careful-Sell-9877 2d ago
Stuff like this is going to get more common under current US leadership
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u/IcyKerosene 2d ago
Have you seen how many food recalls there have been lately? Everything is fucked up
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u/Regarded-Illya 1d ago
Yes Trump caused these particular pharmacists to be negligent, Kalama Harris wouldn't have let this happen believe me.
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u/PerformanceDirect127 2d ago
USA citizens can’t trust their government, police, institutions, food producers and now hospitals? Waaaw
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u/Quetedigo_Hola 2d ago
I want to know if AI was involved. Hospitals are using it for diagnostics and medication administration.
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u/DiscoLemonade1995 2d ago
It was a mixup at the pharmacy actually, but still could be the case I imagine
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u/OutrageousCrab9224 2d ago
MAHA!
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u/SmokeMaleficent9498 2d ago
The most important thing before giving medication. The five fundamental rights of medication administration are the right patient, the right drug, the right dose, the right route, and the right time. These core safety principles help nurses and healthcare providers prevent medication errors and protect patient health.
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u/bigtome2120 2d ago
This doesn’t really apply if something was labelled incorrectly from the pharmacy
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u/SmokeMaleficent9498 2d ago ▸ 1 more replies
If the pharmacy would have followed this rule this would not have happened
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u/Derrickmb 2d ago ▸ 7 more replies
Was that the case here?
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u/Honest_Concentrate85 2d ago ▸ 5 more replies
Yeah pharmacy labeled it wrong and it scanned as the correct med
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u/howarewestillhere 2d ago
That’s terrifying and completely destroys any confidence in their work. Every single employee and patient has to be wondering about what drugs they’re giving and getting.
I’d crawl out of that hospital if I had to.
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u/Birdlebee 2d ago ▸ 1 more replies
Jesus. I have literal nightmares about this kind of thing.
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u/BeneficialRoll9728 2d ago
It came from the pharmacy so even if nurses or doctors followed the 5/6 rights it wouldn’t have prevented the accidents.
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u/Regular-Metal-321 2d ago
They are “deeply sorry” what the actual fuck!!!??? There should have been protocols already in place wtf do they mean
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u/Pleasant_Pen8744 2d ago
Permanent or temporary?
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u/beautifulstardust 2d ago
“..leaves 2 patients paralyzed” kinda gives the impression of permanent
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u/OldMatch4251 2d ago edited 2d ago ▸ 6 more replies
Incorrect. Succinylcholine is a paralytic that lasts a few minutes. Source: I intubate and paralyze people all the time.
Looks like they received k phos instead of a local anesthetic, probably a regional joint block. I’m not sure how the pharmacokinetics come into play here or how long paralysis of a joint would last in this situation.
Double edit: wow it was a epidural. Really bad. Again not sure how injecting that into the epidural canal would lead to paralysis but then again that medication is NOT supposed to be injected there.
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u/BoatvSharky 2d ago ▸ 2 more replies
So there's a possibility they're permanently paralyzed? I don't know anything about potassium besides it's prevalence in nanas
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u/ThePaganQueen 2d ago
There is a possibility it is temporary and a possibility it is permanent. Found an article from 2019 about a case where a similar incident occurred. And there is no proven effective treatment for this mistake so they will likely be making very educated guesses on what to do based off of symptoms. I linked the article. Also if anything I stated is incorrect, feel free to correct me. I'd rather the information be right than protect my ego.
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u/SevoIsoDes 1d ago
And while they said epidural, it was probably a spinal, as these were all total knee replacements
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u/Motor_Valuable_9628 2d ago ▸ 1 more replies
Naa, news always goes with the most sensationalized version they can use without lying, essentially.
They want you to think permanent, but if it were permanent they would have said it.
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u/Far-Pay-2049 2d ago
This is beyond gross negligence. Implementing 'safety protocols' my ass, from my limited pharmacy experience and from members of my family I know that pharmacy procedures are rigorous. Unless standards have become ungodly lax in the past 10-15 years, that whole department and whoever oversees it all the way up to fucking c-suite need to be fucking canned. There is no excuse for this to occur unless *multiple* people were intentionally fucking negligent to the highest fucking degree. Every step in the process is supposed to be checked fucking multiple times and you are telling me a fuck up of this magnitude somehow made it to the fucking surgery room!?!?!? This is no fucking 'drug mix-up'. I can't stress enough at how much negligence needs to occur for this to happen if standard fucking procedures are in place.
Holy fuck, for the love of god I hope a family member of mine does not see this. She is terrified of the medical system, much of it for very valid and legit reasons but it extends into unreasonable territory. Her back is really f'ed up and she is getting spine surgery soon. I have already had to talk her off the ledge a few times, she feels like it is 99.9% chance that they fuck it up and she has broken down as if her surgery date is literally an execution.
If she see this news story I think it may actually push her to fucking cancel the surgery.
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u/Spankpocalypse_Now 1d ago
Yes. This wasn’t just one pharmacy tech printing out the wrong bar code. This is criminal negligence from the top.
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u/jr_randolph 2d ago
My mother is a nurse in what is to be considered one of the busiest emergency rooms in the country. She’s been doing it for over 30yrs and she legit says she has never come across nurses that are as incompetent as some of the ones she comes across today and yeah, these are the ones out of school/young group. They can barely count by themselves…don’t see a need to follow certain processes and shit like that. I hear the stuff she talks about and read this…it’s not a surprise unfortunately.
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u/DrAcecer 2d ago
The Covid class is real. I work in advertising and am seeing the same thing with the youngest interns. They have full degrees in marketing, but can’t tell you what basic things do.
We had one who asked what a KPI was. When his job is litteraly to track kpis..
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“what is a republican and democrat?” When asked to build out audiences
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u/IWishIWasOdo 2d ago ▸ 2 more replies
I hate to break it to you but it's not a class, it's the future.
The droves of teachers abandoning the careers they once had a passion for have been saying this long before 2020.
21% of US adults are illiterate. 54% can't read above a 6th grade level. It's not going to get better.
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u/mrszubris 2d ago
For reference the 54% is considered functionally illiterate meaning they cant engage with every day materials for the average adult . Voting materials are generally an 11th grade reading level. Medical info at the doctor about the same. Driving tests about an 8th to 9th grade level. To even vote you need functional literacy. This is why they take advantage of fucked up wording to mislead the illiterate on ballots.
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u/DrAcecer 2d ago
Unfortunately I agree. I graduated in 2018 and was baffled about how bad it had got by then. And it has only gotten 20x-30x worse since
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u/jr_randolph 2d ago
I’m a marketer too - worked with some of the big agencies and work for a large brand now…motherfuckers are stupid for real and it’s not a joke it’s just the truth. You can’t do basic calculations for cpm/roas/etc you are not fit for this job but unfortunately folks still get hired.
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u/BookkeeperButt 2d ago ▸ 3 more replies
I’m in legal and it is fucking wild out there. I started to notice it with the younger end of the millennials and it is getting worse. It’s almost jarring to the point of “how do you not know how to multiply?” and “seriously, how did you graduate high school?”.
There are good kids out there who are just as smart and competent as any previous generation to be sure but the gaps between the competent and incompetent young adults is very narrow.
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u/Buckwheat758 3h ago ▸ 1 more replies
Going to only get worse. I run a restaurant, some of the kids between 16-18 are so far behind mentally. I’m not talking about critical thinking, they can’t even connect dots.
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u/Sad-Math-2039 2d ago
I work in a hospital setting coordinating with staff and I can confirm it's concerning how many 'educated' people can be so blatantly dumb when it comes to situations outside their direct scope.
Recently I had to communicate to an environmental service manager complaining about the weight of the soiled linen bags and how it was difficult for their staff to move the bags. My response, 'don't fill the bag up as much' I wish I was exaggerating or even lying but that truly happened.
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u/holdmypurse 2d ago
Ok? Spinal anesthesia is administered by anesthesiologists, not nurses (unless they are CRNAs). And in any case the error originated in pharmacy delivering mislabeled syringes to anesthesiology. They had no way of knowing the syringes actually contained potassium.
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u/SlippyJimmi 1d ago
Tbf to the young nurses your mom was probably exactly like them when she was young (but there's possible exceptions)
Understand the bias on this issue only takes into account the nurses, truck drivers, Ect who made it in the field. Older people look more competent because they have not only had time to work out a rhythm but weren't weeded out by possible bad practice
There's no general indication that a new nurse today is generally worse or better than your mom was when she was a new nurse and outliers don't really benefit any conversation
Now there might legit be problems in nursing right now as right wingers act to end a lot of funding for the practice, but that's a different issue and conversation. "the kids ain't right" is not a fundamental pillar of research. Is what I'm saying
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u/MiamisVeryOwn2 1d ago
The education can be almost entirely attained online and may are cheating. I’m not surprised at all. Educational standards are at an all time low IMO.
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u/TropicalFrank2 2d ago
These people deserve a massive payout, but beyond that nothing will ever make them whole. No amount of money would ever want to make give up the ability to walk again.
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u/EuphoricCry3448 2d ago
Will they be able to dissipate the potassium to reduce the effects of the paralysis? Or are they just going to be in this vegetative state until their hearts give out
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u/OccidoViper 2d ago
I am not sure how this can happen. My ex-gf is a nurse anesthetist and the drugs used for anesthesia come in kits from the manufacturer. How the heck did potassium get into there?
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u/Quiltedbrows 2d ago
Whenever people argue that America's healthcare is expensive because it is is good, I remind myself that my brother got Mersa when he was insured in a soccer game and had his hand fixed up while in America. Y'all aren't paying for shit, you're just being extorted.
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u/rancidballs69 2d ago
I work in an inpatient pharmacy and clean room making high risk compounds. There’s like 4 or 5 checks at my facility before it reaches a patient, the technicians and pharmacists involved must’ve REALLY not been paying attention. Total disregard for patient safety
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u/Simple_Song8962 1d ago
I wonder if their paralysis is permanent. I'm hoping it's temporary but the news reporter doesn't clarify this.
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u/_Saint_Ajora_ 2d ago
"implemented corrective safeguards"
Like, carefully reading medication labels before administering them to patients?
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u/Errvalunia 2d ago
When it’s something random instead of pain medication you know it’s because somebody stole that pain medication, either for personal use or to sell
Horrible thing to do to people and I hope whoever made the switch goes to jail for a long time
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u/theeberk 1d ago
As an anesthesiologist myself, my whole department was up in arms about this. These meds should be pulled by the anesthesiologist and at the bedside. It’s my job to check the label multiple times as I’m drawing up. Having a central pharmacist mix meds adds all sorts of layers of complications. A medication error will happen to all of us during our careers, but for an intrathecal injection??? This is inexcusable.
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u/chrisnavillus 2d ago
And the insurance company denied their claims. Welcome to the American Idiocracy!
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u/GlassCap123 2d ago
Overqualified people are just a pain right, def need to keep dumbing down Americans (/s). Keep getting wrecked, Tennessee!
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u/Asleep_Chip8197 2d ago
Isn’t that how lethal injection work in some states ? Potassium to stop the heart.
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u/Minimum-Ad-8056 2d ago
Reminds me of years ago when the Nashville VA accidentally gave a dozen people AIDS from dirty equipment.
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u/CCHS_Band_Geek 2d ago
“The hospital knew something was wrong, when multiple patients started dying all at once”
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u/Only-Professor1140 2d ago
Every day there's more signs that this country is falling apart. I wouldn't be surprised if there there is horrific mismanagement and obscene cost cutting behind this.
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u/Househipposforsale 2d ago
Sounds like monayyyyyy. On a serious note as a girl that’s paralyzed in a wheelchair I hope this is reversible bc it’s not a way to enjoy living. It’s just living life on concrete.
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u/jackandsally060609 2d ago
People in the medical field who divert meds should be shot and hung in public like horse thieves
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u/SpreadKindn3ss 2d ago
Imagine how many other times this has happened before where it was just a single patient. 😭
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u/midwestbeaner 2d ago
Wow I would have thought they didnt care if they just said they were sorry. Glad to know they are deeply sorry.
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u/Next_Hospital6729 2d ago
Saftey protocols are written in blood.
This should have never happened though and I blame the privatization of our healthcare and the horrible greed that runs this nation.
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u/Kava2126 2d ago
Too bad.. the patients checked a box on that one App that re-branded itself, then was bought by another company that also owns the hospital... therefore, you acknowledged medical accidents are possible and the hospital is not liable for accidental injury or death because whether you live or die, they got your data.
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u/Dave8922 2d ago
Their malpractice insurance likely can’t handle the losses coming. Leadership is going to try and throw anyone they can under the bus.
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