SoCal woman suffers lethal brain bleed after medication error

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You can help prevent medication errors. Learn the tragic story of a SoCal woman who passed from a brain bleed, and what could have helped prevent it.


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[trishayamada]

I always say you should never be left alone in the hospital. You need an advocate.

[joanijackson]

I am a 73 year old woman and I had an experience with my anaesthetist before having my hip replacement, I told him in a very polite way that my veins are really bad and after fasting for so long that they usually use an ultrasound to insert a cannula. The anaesthetist was very rude to me and said he does it for a living and he knows what he’s doing. He tried 28 times stabbing me to get a cannula in without succeeding. Meanwhile my Surgeon kept opening the door in the holding bay outside theatre, asking the anaesthetist if he have me ready yet.? He absolutely refused to get the ultrasound so my surgeon told him to wheel me in and I had to have an epidural 😢, and I guess they probably cannulated me while I was under the anaesthetic but it was excruciatingly painful and I was bruised all over my arms everywhere. I am a retired emergency nurse myself but I didn’t tell him that because they often think that I’m trying to tell them their job. I made a complaint about him because that just wasn’t good enough and it took over an hour of stressing me out to be then given an epidural and I was getting stressed about going in for my hip replacement. I’m not usually stressed before surgery but this is just really stressed me out and he was getting really upset because he couldn’t get the vein to, accept the cannula. It was a horrendous situation and when I was back in my room, I had to be re-recannulated for IV therapy because the cannula came out and I told the doctor that I needed an ultrasound and he happily obliged. You would think that the patient knows their body, and I can tell you that both of my arms and hands were absolutely purple all over and very painful and it took weeks for them to recover due to me bruising very easily, not on blood thinners though which made it hard when the pathology nurse came to take bloods from me. Thank you for your very informative videos as I think it’s very important to teach patients that they should talk to their doctors about what they know about their bodies and how they react to certain drugs. Keep up the great work and thank you once again. 🙏🏻🥲

[dianebrown]

Both my mother and husband died from doctor errors. My husband was only 48 at the time of his death and it all started from a broken femur. Nobody should have to worry about dying after breaking a leg.

[juliepietruszka]

I'm an RN and I caught a med error. My tiny old lady who was my patient was getting a super high dose of lovenox injection. I had never given such a high dose in one shot. I called the pharmacy immediately and question them on the dose ordered and prescribed and on my MAR to give. Turns out the person who weighed the patient put in her LBS as KGS when they weighed her and lovenox is dosed off of weight. So they had her weight in at over 2 times her actual weight. She could have bled to death. She was given many doses prior to me noticing. Hospitals are very scarey places for patients to be. Yes hopsitals make many human errors which costs people thei lives. Its very scarey.

[justjosie]

I was strongly bullied by the medical industrial complex for about a decade for asking questions and deciding what was best for me in spite of "doctor's orders". I found that each and every medication I had been on, also listed my medical issues I was being treated for as "side effects" of the medications. Since I was not being healed, I went off said medicines because they couldnt tell me how we could tell if I was unwell doing to being unwell or as a result of the medications! 🤦🏻‍♀️I will tell you the doctors involved were very belittling and resented that I did my own research.

[kathydeel]

I was put on a med I was allergic to after hip replacement surgery. I was told the anesthesiologist went down my allergy list and picked the one I had the least reaction to. I said something to everyone that came in to check me. The surgeons assistant said "you seem to handle it ok". I told him just because I was in a hospital, didn't mean I would survive it. That shut him up. Thanks for what you're doing. ❤

[robertceliberti]

It's scary. When my dad was dying we asked the nurse about the meds. He had great nurses and doctors. His comfort and safety was very important. I muss him. This a great topic. My mom advocated for me when I had my tonsils out. I had bad vomiting afterwards and she asked. So I stayed overnight. We also found out that I'm allergic to penicillin after this surgery.

[darriontunstall]

Very sad story, always ask my doctor when I’m in the hospital or doctor office what is this medication for, I would be a great anesthesiologist like you, I really enjoy donating to the anesthesiologist Foundation, since it was hard for me to go to college because of my cerebral palsy, I look up to all anesthesiologist and CRNA, it takes a special person to be a anesthesiologist or CRNA and you’re one of them! You rock man

[Bealtaine]

My mom, while in hospital a couple of days before heart surgery heparin, was given to her causing a cerebral hemorrhage. Luckily she did survive this medical incident. I now list her problem with blood thinners when I give my medical history to my doctors. I am on blood thinners myself at the moment . I did make a fuss before I accepted to take the thinners. Thank you for your time and knoweldge

[janekimmell]

You need an advocate with you. My husband was in ICU and Dr. ordered an antibiotic for him that almost killed him. Since that time I am always with him unless they kick me out.

[cnlights]

Lack of communication is the leading cause of death.

[Fairycrochetmamma]

You are so amazing ❤a gift to humanity ! Why aren’t there more physicians like you .

[bernieyorke]

You mentioned pharmacists that weren’t talked ng to each other, when my mother was in hospital there were three doctors involved and THEY weren’t talking to each other. Instead each one asked my elderly mother what the other doctors said or what they scheduled. My mother only had 8th grade education and knew nothing of what they were talking about half the time. I had to raise holy hell before things straightened out!

[Maxsmom]

Thank you for covering this sad story. I am a chronic migraine sufferer. I recently finally had an appointment with a neurologist. He dispensed me a few meds to try. One of them contained aspartame which is one of my triggers. If I chew a piece of gum with aspartame it will cause a severe migraine. 10 minutes prior we discussed my allergies and triggers. It wasn't until I read the detailed medication paperwork did I see the aspartame. I emailed the neurologist and was told that it didn't matter because I would already have a severe migraine when I needed to take it. After speaking with my pharmacist, we decided not to try that one.

[jkinsyhorrigan]

I have always asked what the med are in the hospital. Most of the time the response is “the doctor prescribed it for you.” That is unacceptable 6:44

[lifeunfiltered]

I take sulfasalazine for mixed connective tissue disease, and while in the hospital they confused it with a different medication and gave me that one instead. I don't remember what the mistake medication was, but I do remember the nurse having major attitude with me whwn I asked her what she was giving me. She said I'm giving you your meds you're supposed to take. I asked about this one in particular because it didn't look like anything I was on. She brushed it off by saying sometimes the pills look different depending on the med. I asked her specifically to tell me the name of the med bc "your normal meds" was not an acceptable answer. She literally ROLLED HER EYES AT ME and named a medication that I am not on. When I told her that, there was a fleeting look of panic on her face and she left to go get the nurse supervisor. Nobody got in trouble for this, they downplayed it.

[EllenJenkins-uf]

Very sad. The last time I was in hospital a pharmacist totally changed my med list without talking to me or maybe even looking at chart. Three of the 5 meds they wanted to send me home with I am allergic to and one of them absolutely doesn't work for me. I caught it but it caused a huge uproar and I was made to feel guilty. Now I have a problem and have been gaslit for 18 months. No one wants to listen.

[t.h.]

A coworkers husband was battling cancer. He never stayed in the hospital alone. She was afraid of medical errors.

[deejayk]

My sister who is a nurse always says try real hard to stay out of the hospital!

[sandyjohnson]

I was inpatient one time from anaphylactic shock. I was getting prednisone and Benadryl every 6 and 4 hours respectively. I made the nurses turn the lights on at night when they did the push. They didn’t like that, but you need a light to verify you’re got the right patient and the right drug.