Treatment mistakes Bad confusion in the hospital Patient dies because of wrong blood reserves

Because of confused blood preserves? Patient dies in the hospital
A patient in a hospital in Duderstadt, Lower Saxony, is said to have twice received a blood reserve from another patient a few weeks ago. At first, the condition of the woman who needed surgery on the leg deteriorated, eventually she died. Guilt could have been incompatible blood.
Woman with a similar name
In a clinic in Duderstadt (Lower Saxony), there was apparently a deadly confusion: A patient may have died there because of wrong blood supplies. As the news agency dpa reported, the Chief Attorney, Stefan Studenroth, on Wednesday in Göttingen on request said: "We investigate against two doctors for negligent homicide." Previously, various media had already reported on the case. As has been reported, it is currently the subject of investigation, whether the confusion in the canned food was also the cause of the death of the patient on the sixth of December. "We have commissioned a report." According to the information, the woman should have twice received canned food from another patient with the same or similar name. It is said that the patient was already under anesthetic when she was given a Preserve with an incompatible blood type.

Serious treatment error: Patient dies after wrong blood. Picture: contrast workshop - fotolia

Patient should be operated on the leg
According to media reports, she was supposed to be operated on her leg as she became progressively worse and eventually transferred to an intensive care unit. At this station, she is said to have received another canned food, without the blood groups were previously controlled. "The hospital administration immediately turned on the prosecutor's office when she became aware of the case," explained hospital spokesman Florian Grewe. The doctors are currently no longer working in the hospital. "It is deeply regrettable for us, the employees are shaken," says Grewe. "It's an isolated case." There were no further confusions. According to the information, the Lower Saxony Ministry of Health, the investigation of the two doctors before the media reports were not known. "We have no specialist supervision of the hospital," explained Ministry spokeswoman Heinke Traeger on Wednesday in Hannover. However, she pointed out: "Hospitals must be organized so that such confusions can not occur."

Unfortunately, not an isolated case
For the organizational structure, the management of a hospital is responsible. The spokeswoman said that she was not aware of any similar case in recent years in Lower Saxony. Unfortunately, such confusions are not an isolated case. For example, a 75-year-old in Marburg in Hesse, Germany, received the wrong canned food in 2010 and died as a result. And in 2008, a 68-year-old woman died in a hospital in Lemgo, North Rhine-Westphalia, after being transfused with the wrong blood type. Both times it was probably human error to blame for the deaths of the patients. After a patient had died in 2011 in a Cologne hospital because of a confused blood bank, it was said that the clinic bore an "organizational fault". In 2002, a doctor in Lübeck was sentenced to six months probation for gross negligence. Reason also here: reversed blood preserves. (Ad)