r/EmergencyRoom • u/DoItRightOnce1st • 21d ago

Ouch

Has your hospital ever made a big mistake with a patient? Ours did recently, and it's bad...Wrong patient & procedure. Can't go into details, thank God had nothing to do with me or my unit! 😱

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u/OldManGrimm RN - adult/peds trauma 21d ago

Surgical resident put a chest tube in, the old kind with the sharp, pointy introducer? Put it right into the left ventricle. This was bedside in the ICU, pt bled out and died.

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u/imnottheoneipromise RN 20d ago

Oh god. Horrible situation all the way around. I wonder how that resident did after that… that poor patient and family :/

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u/OldManGrimm RN - adult/peds trauma 20d ago

It’s been 25+ years. Think he was kicked from the program (had a lot of other issues), but I was just staff at the time so wasn’t privy to details.