Re:Shocking hospital mistakes led to our daughter’s death
by n8henrie on Sunday September 04, 2022 @08:17PM
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For others looking for the medically pertinent details, from what I can tell the most consequential mistakes (at least the ones being emphasized in the article) were:
- failure to use a sepsis severity scoring system to determine need for higher level of care
- failure to order an unnamed test to determine severity of infection (I assume lactic acid?)
- failure to move to a higher level of care (ICU) earlier in the course of care
It appears that the patient was on (unspecified) antibiotics from a fairly early point in the course of care. I may have missed it being spelled out more explicitly, but it sounds like the patient died from traumatic pancreatitis -> necrotizing pancreatitis.
- failure to use a sepsis severity scoring system to determine need for higher level of care
- failure to order an unnamed test to determine severity of infection (I assume lactic acid?)
- failure to move to a higher level of care (ICU) earlier in the course of care
It appears that the patient was on (unspecified) antibiotics from a fairly early point in the course of care. I may have missed it being spelled out more explicitly, but it sounds like the patient died from traumatic pancreatitis -> necrotizing pancreatitis.
EDIT: Markdown fixes, autocorrect error