"The patient was not wearing a helmet"

 http://flickr.com/photos/roentgenator/2450912496/

  >http://flickr.com/photos/roentgenator/2450912496/

Did the injuries happen in the hospital?

After all, one Utah hospital did kill a woman who was wearing a helmet and
had only a mild concussion by accidentally giving her someone elses med.s.

 Vito wrote:


That's Fran Crane you are talking about, right?  She was a nice lady.

"On Thursday, while completing the final leg of the Iron Butt Rally,
Fran had a single vehicle accident near Cedar City, Utah. She was
airlifted to a trauma unit in Salt Lake City, where her husband Walter
rushed to her side. She had sustained a bad concussion but was conscious
and lucid. Fran was expected to be out of the ICU and in a private room
by Saturday, but that morning she was mistakenly given an incorrect
I.V., which contained a blood thinner. Fran slipped into a coma and was
pronounced brain dead on Sunday morning. Her organs were given to five
different individuals throughout the country."

http://www.danielcohen.org/100days/journals/day028.htm

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   -bts
   -Friends don't let friends drive Windows

 
There was a case a couple decades back where a guy went in for a routine
procedure (culture or analysis of spinal fluid, I think), and there was an
unlabeled container in the OR.  Anyway, they injected into the spine of the
guy what they believed was spinal fluid but was actually formaldehyde.  He
was brain dead within a few minutes as the chemical traveled up the spinal
cord to the brain.

Anyway, there was the standard 60 Minutes piece, the standard gazillion
dollar lawsuit.  One of the photos shown in one news piece was the new signs
they had put on the operating rooms reading "No unlabeled containers allowed
in this room" or something like that.  A little late.

Rule #1 in Common Sense:  If you're not sure what is in a bottle, do not
inject it into a human being.

Surprisingly, though, I think most medicine mixups that involve substance
identity issues rather than dosage issues turn out OK.  Most medicines
aren't that toxic at the recommended dosage.

And then there is the awful case of Dennis Quaid's kids:

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/03/13/60minutes/main3936412.shtml

The Lizard

 

The famous Dr. J. Mengele used to inject phenol into his patients'
hearts when his experiments did not bring the desired results.