CNN uncovers high surgical mortality rate for children at a Florida hospital

[Mavrick, BSN, RN]

CNN uncovers high surgical death rate at hospital - CNN.com

Pediatric cardiac surgery is undoubtedly a risky procedure but when it happens at this Florida Hospital it's deadly. When you do less than 30 of the surgeries a year, your proficiency tends to flag and lying about your death rate is the only way to keep the experiments going.

One of the parents is grateful her child is "only paralyzed".

How does this kind of thing stay a secret?

[meanmaryjean, DNP, RN]

Tragic! I work in a PICU that does these types of surgeries. I cannot imagine being a member of the staff and living with these outcomes. And when the article states the child was on 'life support' the photographs indicate that they were placed on ECMO!

[NEradtech]

What a sad story. I cannot imagine how the parents feel. I just can't believe that the hospital never intervene with the doctor and stopped the program! Plain ignorance.

[NicuGal, MSN, RN]

I watched this last night! It

was kind of horrifying, well a lot horrifying!!!

[KatieMI, BSN, MSN, RN]

NEradtech,

Please.

This big cheese of a surgeon brought moneys in that place. A whole d*** lot of them and then some more, because if they wanted to establish training program outlet, then they could milk Medicare directly.

Add to that the fact that as the so-called program will be shut down, there will be a few dozen of folks losing their jobs. Techs, nurses just like you and me, and that gal who was recruited from across the country and paid $10000 for relocation because she has X years as first leading RN in open pediatric heart OR.

I bet that many people heard something, or saw something, and kept silent because they had loans, morgages and kids to put in college. What I am surprised of is that experienced nurses did not run from that place as if it were infected by plaque. At least some of them have to understand that something is going really askew. Now, if parents speak about massive lawsuit, every person who ever got near that PICU can be affected. Sad story, totallyou illustrating why American health cate costs so much and results are so unimpressive.

[Oceanpacific]

It really does make you wonder what the nurses at this facility would say. They would be the ones to know. Perhaps some of them will be courageous and comment here. Please.