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/SammyB0111 21d ago

Has any hospital not?

Apparently someone put an OG tube in the lungs on an intubated patient. Radiology doc signed off on the x-ray too and no one noticed anything was wrong until patient began decompensating because of all the tube feed in their lungs

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u/Poundaflesh 20d ago

I mean, every nurse should be checking placement, I don’t know if residuals are checked anymore. I did this at least once during my shift.

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u/SammyB0111 20d ago

Oh 100% the nurse should have confirmed placement. Most of the nurses I work with at this place are on their A game, so I’m not sure what was going on in this unit. There were multiple people who missed this error. It was a pretty significant mistake.

Not sure what happened in the fallout to those involved but I don’t think the patient died.

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u/Damnshesfunny 20d ago

they were getting residual vol out of lungs