The words that we will never hear "I'm sorry, your loved one has irreversible brain damage ..." Says the doctor in the crowded waiting room. They blurt out "But how could this happen?" You ask with bated breath and tried to learn the source of terrible anxiety. The doctor will tell you seek is, in fact, to tell you ... But the doctor knows if he tells you the reason why this has happened to be, you should bring a direct action against the hospital, the anesthesiologist andall who care for your loved one.
When will have the surgery, the anesthesiologist is obliged to speak with you before surgery to determine whether you are a good candidate to say, we, under general anesthesia, where you will be put to sleep to win. The anesthesiologist is to communicate with you about the risks associated with general anesthesia. In any case, where anesthesia is administered, there is always the possibility of death. However, if any anesthesiologist told every patient that theycould die from the anesthesia during the "routine" operation, no one would ever surgery.
Why is this so important? Because some patients who would rather not risk, so far away that something catastrophic could happen in the context of a "simple routine" surgery. Take as an example a case I handled a few years ago. It was about a woman who had a colonoscopy a doctor's office with. She had followed the doctor's instructions to prepare for the procedure to the letter.No food after midnight, nothing to drink. It was so horrible, disgusting drink that you will go to the toilet causes 20 times in a row, a total clean-out.
When she arrived for her colonoscopy, she never expected something to happen eventually. Interestingly, the doctor had the sense to the proceedings to have an anesthesiologist in the room. The anesthesiologist gave her an IV and gave her medicine to make her sleepy. Then the procedure is started. There were some difficultiespassing the tube through the intestine and the next moment, the patient had vomited. The anesthesiologist did not realize what had happened, and instead of stopping the procedure, advised the doctor while the colonoscopy remains that the patient was in order. Quite the contrary. The patient had to inhale the vomit into the lungs. The anesthesiologist never vacuumed the vomit past her windpipe. In fact, they had inhaled so much vomit, in a very short time, the acidic stomach contents began toto eat away at the lungs of the patient. Soon she could not breathe easily and was very labored breathing. Only if the doctor make clear the colonoscopy that he was not able to complete the process, he stopped what he was doing.
The anesthesiologist still does not recognize the significance of what had happened. The patient's oxygen level falling fast. There was a strong presumption that the anesthesiologist was not even present to monitor the patient, as he had to go into the next trapprovide anesthesia for the next patient. After almost an hour breathing more difficult in the recovery room and a decreasing oxygen in the blood of the patient, finally someone call an ambulance. The patient developed a severe inflammation of the lungs from foreign matter (vomit), now in her lungs. Two days later she died directly as a result of the anesthesia errors, and the doctors that it terminate the procedure when there is a significant complication.
The sad thing about this story is thatThis woman would have lived for many years, had these errors not occurred. The patient suffered brain damage and could see significant damage to the lungs of an anesthetist, the most common complications, and a condition the doctors called aspiration pneumonia and hypoxia as well as a decreased amount of oxygen in the lungs, bloodstream and brain known.
Another case that I handled recently involved a young man who had hernia surgery. There should be a "same-day 'Procedures and the young man was released after the anesthetic had worn off. Unfortunately for this young man was given too much anesthesia. Instead discharged from the recovery room an hour later, he was still three hours later. Since it was left at 7:00 pm and the outpatient center is already closed, the doctor decided that the patient should be admitted to the hospital, and only for overnight observation. In this way it can be observed, and as the anesthetichave subsided, he will be able to go home in the morning. Not a bad idea.
However, the patient was so groggy, he did not even know he'd been hospitalized. He was admitted to a regular floor, and there was no electronic monitoring of his oxygen, his heart function or even his breathing. It was an unmonitored medical floor where the nurses came in every three or four hours to review and take only a possibly your vital signs, if you were lucky.
Duringthe night was the night nurse was asleep, the young man and decided not to wake him to take the vital functions. This is a bad decision was. In the morning, when the next shift was required, the nurse went to check on the young man and found him totally blue, not breathing, and cardiac arrest. An emergency "code blue" was called and doctors came racing from all over the hospital to try to revive the young man again. The doctors were ultimately successful and was able to start his heartagain. They put him on a ventilator because he could not breathe for themselves. Tests showed that this young man had been deprived of oxygen for hours. His body was over-anesthesia were from hernia surgery the night before, and although drugs available to reverse the effects of anesthesia more, these patients never such a medication.
This young man lived on a respirator and suffering from all kinds of complications, on a respirator andirreversible brain damage suffered, including pneumonia, infection, kidney failure and an untimely and terrible death. "But he just went into the hospital for routine hernia surgery!" cried his father. What did this was worse, for a few days after this disaster, the man was able to feel pain. When she pinched his skin, he moaned. When she touched his eyeball, he recanted. There was evidence of some degree of conscious pain and suffering. This young man's deathwas avoidable.
Anesthesia mistakes are tragic and unforgiving. When tragedy hits, have to this question, try to answer: "Why did this happen?"
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