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⚠️ Hemorrhagic Shock Death in Jehovah’s Witness Patient on Warfarin After Azithromycin Prescribed for Bronchitis
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- Hands down, this is absolutely the wildest post I’ve ever seen on Reddit. Really, really, really hoping this person does not have rabies.
- ⚠️Intraoperative Death During Alleged Splenectomy: This case has gone viral and multiple readers have sent it to me. Some of the records are floating around social media, and I republished them here. This is the operative report and explanation of the underlying situation:
- Replying to @PaulSkallasCrazy part is that the lady probably would have survived if a lay person had taken her to the hospital. The EMS crew accidentally killed her by putting the breathing tube into her stomach, not her lungs, she got not oxygen/ventilation and died.
- Replying to @medmalreviewerAlso, pop quiz… where do you need to biopsy this patient?
- Replying to @medmalreviewerSurgical errors and bad outcomes unfortunately do happen. I've published a few of them: - neurosurgeon operates on the wrong side of a head - vascular surgeon removes clavicle instead of first rib for thoracic outlet syndrome - colorectal surgeon makes an anastomosis to a vagina
- Really incredible article about an insurance company disciplining a doctor for following the standard of care. journals.lww.com/em-news/fullte… Looks like their “experts” are just as bad as some of the most crooked plaintiff experts I see.
- Replying to @medmalreviewerThe key piece of information we're still missing is the autopsy report. It will shed further light on how this mistake happened. It seems unlikely given the patient's earlier CT scan, but did he have abdominal situs inversus? Was the surgeon actually operating in the LUQ?
- Just read through the Halyna Hutchins autopsy (Alec Baldwin shooting on Rust) and it strongly suggests substandard prehospital trauma care. 1. Esophageal intubation 2. Needle decompression didn’t actually make it into the chest
- Replying to @medmalreviewerA few immediate thoughts: The patient initially stated (over the course of several days) that he did not want surgery and wanted to go home. The surgeon felt this was a poor idea (potentially life threatening), even to the point of involving the CMO. When a patient is declining
- Replying to @jkantor_MDAntemortem rabies testing including biopsy of a particular skin location: cdc.gov/laboratory/spe…
