Originally Posted by n_g
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The Nevada State Board of Nursing reports that five certified nurse anesthetists voluntarily surrendered their licenses Wednesday pending the resolution of an investigation into dangerous and irresponsible injection practices at Endoscopy Center of Nevada, which led to the largest hepatitis C scare in the nation.
People do stupid things and make mistakes no matter what their level of training. Here is just a few MDAs making stupid mistakes....
http://www.nctimes.com/articles/2004...0421_51_22.txt
Anesthesiologist charged by Medical Board
http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/ar.../ln/ln10a.html
A Honolulu anesthesiologist charged this week with purchasing chemicals that could be used to make the "date rape drug"
Failure to diagnose results in a judgment of $4.0 million when an anesthesiologist does not recognize that a patient has a small bowel obstruction.
Failure to get informed consent results in a judgment of $1.5 million after an interscalene block, for post operative pain control from torn rotator cuff surgery, placed against the patient’s express wishes, resulted in severe neck pain, arm weakness, numbness and a drooping left eyelid. The defendant anesthesiologist claimed that the patient consented.
Failure to review a medication list results in a judgment of $700,000 when a patient taking a NSAID developed a post operative spinal cord hematoma with residual weakness in both legs and no bowel or bladder control after lumbar laminectomy surgery. The anesthesiologist’s argument that it was not a breach of the standard of care to not read the medical record prior to surgery and that the anesthesiologist had no duty to discuss the drug with the surgeon was not accepted by the jury (Barbour v. Betz, June 2004).
Failure to do a “time out,” followed by wrong sided knee surgery results in a judgment of $ 175,000 with 5% of the negligence assigned to the anesthesiologist
Failure in OR communication results in a judgment of $1.75 million when information about a change in intraoperative evoked potentials was not “heard” by the surgeon and a young women undergoing scoliosis surgery woke up partially paralyzed. The technician monitoring the evoked potentials claimed that he had informed the surgeon; the surgeon denied receiving the information. A later change in evoked potentials was ignored because it was attributed to anesthesia (Skaggs v Tupper, February 2005). It is unclear from the material available for review if the anesthesiologist was a defendant
Failure to record vital signs results in a judgment of $750,000 after cardiac arrest and anoxic brain damage to 48 year old man who had presented for elective debridement of the third finger of his left hand. Induction of general anesthesia and placement of a laryngeal mask airway were uneventful. Shortly after surgery began the patient became bradycardic and suffered a cardiac arrest. For one hour there was no recording of oxygen saturation on the anesthesia record. The anesthesia resident’s claim that, despite the lack of recorded values, the patient had been continually monitored and given the appropriate amount of oxygen apparently did not impress the court (case citation withheld from article).
http://upennanesthesiology.typepad.c...-medical-.html
Thio is an anesthesiologist and pain management physician who had offices in Murrieta and Corona, said attorney Craig Johnson, who represented the plaintiffs.
"The act of billing fraud is viewed by the medical community as one of the most reprehensible acts," Johnson said
http://www.nctimes.com/articles/2004...0422_42_47.txt
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