Approximately a year ago, six surgeons experienced an aviation crash. Their hospital, previously known as Seattle Grace Mercy West, had received a request to assist with a conjoined twin surgery from Boise Hospital, since they had just successfully completed a case of this type of surgery a month earlier. In response, Mercy West sent six of their surgeons from different specialties onto a plane that afternoon. The plane never arrived at Boise Hospital. In fact, it was not until three days later that a rescue helicopter spotted the wreckage in the middle of the woods. By the time the helicopter had arrived, two of the surgeons had died, and one had endured a serious injury to her right femur.
The surgeon’s name who suffered from the fractured femur as a result of the aviation crash is Arizona Robbins. Arizona, a graduate of John Hopkins School of Medicine, had recently replaced Dr. Kenley as head of pediatric surgery at Seattle Grace Mercy West before the crash. Once the helicopter picked them up, Arizona and the other surgeons were taken to Boise to get checked out. At Boise, the head of orthopedic surgery suggested to Arizona that amputation was the best chance for survival, due to the possibility of infection she was exposed to from laying in the woods with an open wound. She rejected this option, and asked to get her wife’s opinion. Her wife at the time was Callie Torres, who is the head of orthopedic at Seattle Grace. Torres had promised Arizona that she would be
This leads us to believe that surgeons were heroes. Often times, they had to risk their own lives by just being in the middle of a war zone to help prevent the death of
In the Darling v. Charleston Community Memorial Hospital case, the plaintiff went to Charleston Community Memorial Hospital after breaking his leg. The unqualified physician, Dr. Alexander, incorrectly placed the cast on the plaintiff’s leg. The ill-fitted cast restricted blood circulation and resulted in a significant amount of necrotic tissue. Ultimately, due to negligence of the medical and nursing staff at Charleston Community Memorial Hospital, Darling’s leg was amputated. (Darling, 1965).
Nightingale Community Hospital identified a recent sentinel event involving the ambulatory surgical center. A sentinel event is defined as an unexpected occurrence involving death or serious physical or psychological injury, or the risk thereof (http://www.jointcommission.org/sentinel_event). A three year old female presented to the hospital on September 14th for a planned outpatient procedure. The child was accompanied by her mother. The mother registered the patient with the registrar prior to the procedure. The patient and her mother went to the pre-operative area to complete the informed consent and the necessary physical assessment. The pre-operative nurse obtained the necessary contact
Imagine waking up from kidney surgery only to realize that there are stitches not only on your stomach, but also on your chest. Imagine the doctor coming up and having to explain to you that his surgical tech got a weak stomach and with scalpel in-hand, fell and put a puncture wound large enough for stitches on your chest. You would be shocked at the severe lack of professionalism by the surgical technologist, and you would question the hospitals inequity.
University Hospital is a well known hospital with a level 1 trauma treatment center for the tri-county area of a northwestern state, the hospital enjoys the fact they are known for their promising reputation among healthcare professionals and the public they serve. Jan Adams is an OR supervisor that has been working there for ten years, as a professional she makes surgeons follow protocol as required and enjoys working with trauma patients. One Friday night, which is the busiest day of the week for the trauma department; the unit was notified that a helicopter was on its way with a 42 year old man who had been in a car accident. Shortly after the patient arrived to the trauma center, the resident and other medical staff noted that he was in very bad physical conditions, needed immediate surgery or otherwise he was going to die. The issue was that the on call surgeon had to be present during the surgery and had not yet arrived, but regardless of the matter and protocol they proceeded with medically treating the patient immediately. The concern is that in doing so they violated medical procedures and put the patients safety at risk, this lead to a long list of ethical issues for example, patient well-being, impaired healthcare professional, adherence to professional codes of ethical conduct, adherence to the organization’s mission statement, ethical standards, and values statements, management’s role and responsibility, failure
In Creela Belle Howard’s article “Legal settlements at Veterans Affairs more than tripled since 2011, many due to medical malpractice,” she argues that VA hospitals, known for having a history of scandals and malpractice, should start terminating staff members for malpractice. Howard presents credible evidence, as well as implementing emotion through heartbreaking examples of veterans who passed away at the hands of shiftless staff at VA hospitals throughout the country. The author also presents no bias by stating facts without opinions about her own personal views.
"My incident took place in August of 1955. I had been taken to Middlesex Hospital in New Brunswick, New Jersey, due to a miscarriage. Placed in a ward because I was a military dependent, the doctor who was to care for me never came. I was placed at a forty-five-degree angle due to bleeding and was left that way for almost eight days. No one heard my pleas. By the eighth day, I could not hear anyone, my eyes could not see, and I was later told that my body temperature registered 87.6 degrees. I should have been dead.
From the years 1995 through 2003, I was an Air Force medic stationed in Germany. For the first five years I was an Airman at the 86 Aeromedical Staging Facility (ASF). Our mission at the ASF was to transport patients back and forth from the flight line as they traveled to and from their medical appointments from their assignments across Europe and sometimes over the Atlantic Ocean to various Medical Treatment Facilities (MTFs) located in the Continental United States (CONUS). Our daily operations were fairly routine and all of the technicians knew their assigned roles well whether they were driving a vehicle, transporting luggage or caring for traveling patients. ASF operations were fairly routine, even mundane, until 26 June 1996, a terrorist blew up a dorm filled with Air Force personnel in the Middle East called Khobar Towers.
There were two employees involved in the accident, Waunita Clark ( OCS) and David Shackelford (Cable). Waunita did not survive the accident. David is in intensive care and sustained a broken neck and collar bone.
It’s been three days. Three days since the plane crashed--when something went wrong with the engine and made the plane stop flying, and crash. The gash on my head made the top of my long, blonde hair, look red and dirty. But it was only a little cut. From seeing everyone else, I guess I was one of the lucky ones. Many people here thought someone would be here by now. The rescue team I mean, the people that should be here saving our lives. Many people are depending on their coming, because half of the people here have open wounds, and those wounds probably have infections from the debris in
This crash is considered to be the second deadliest aviation accident at the time in the US.
It strongly important for institutions to strategically follow the health regulations and laws regarding technology as well as addressing any violations immediately. The law that was made for each company to follow to avoid and violations is “The False Claims Act (FCA) is was put into place in 1863 where its mission is hold those responsible who submit fraudulent claims to government programs like Medicare and Medicaid. In Featherfall Medical Center an issue of breaching of patient security and confidentiality, but they contribute to the financial and operational burden of the organization. When it comes to impacting the violations these health regulations and laws regarding technology on institutions, the damage could significantly affect
The good thing was there was a witness who saw the whole incident and called the officials. After several minutes, an ambulance came to help the guy. He was saved after the efforts of the surgeons in the hospital.
The affected couple had the husband dead in the hospital two weeks after the accident while the wife suffered broken bones, according to gossip site TMZ.
This past week, I was able to observe a right hip fracture repair. The patient had broken his hip and was undergoing surgery to place screws and plates into his hip. I was able to see the whole process through the preoperative, intraoperative and postoperative stages.