A lady named Tesome Sampson was on bed rest when she was only five and a half months pregnant with her daughter. Tesome was supposed to be given progesterone supplements to keep her from going into early labor but was instead given Prostin which is a medication used to force dead fetuses out of the womb after miscarriages. Tesome told the nurse she was having really bad cramps so the nurse said that she just had to go to the bathroom. While on the toilet Tesome gave birth to her daughter Traniya. She was only five and a half months pregnant. Traniya suffered severe brain damage and still does to this day. She was hospitalized for a long time because of health complications. If Tesome was never given the Prostin her baby girl would have been healthy. Now Tesome’s daughter is handicap and will be for the rest of her life.
The sad part is that just hours before they mistakenly gave Tesome the wrong drug, they did the same exact thing to another woman that was on bed rest with twins. It happened in the same hospital as well. The lady lost both of her twins. How do you make the same mistake in the same hospital only hours apart?
I don’t know how this happens but to have it happen twice is just sad. Nurses need to read the label and not only double check the label but also triple check the label.
Wow, do you know the data on these type of occurrences yearly?
ReplyDeleteDifferent websites say different numbers but when I read about how often this occurs they said every year there are one million medical errors.
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