Caregiver apparently killed out of boredom

Caregiver apparently killed out of boredom

01/22/2014

A 38-year-old nurse accused of murder is said to be responsible for the deliberate death of five patients between March 2003 and June 2005. The deeds have occurred according to the public prosecutor Oldenburg in the intensive care unit in the hospital Delmenhorst. In order to prove his medical skills, the accused had injected the patient with the active ingredient Ajmalin and acceptingly accepted the death. The drug resulted in cardiac arrhythmias, ventricular fibrillation and hypotension.

Boredom as a motive
Another motive should also have been Lageweile. In three cases, his actions led to the death of the patients. In the other two cases he is accused of attempted murder. Post mortem exhumations could be detected in all ajmaline, although they had not been treated with the drug during the treatment. In the case of a conviction corresponding to the indictment, the accused person may be threatened with life imprisonment as well as the imposition of preventive detention.

Hospital report is cause for concern
The recently published AOK Hospital Report may, in this context, increase some people's feelings of hospitalization. Allegedly, therefore, in German hospitals annually about 19,000 patients due to treatment errors or antibiotic resistant hospital germs (MRSA) as a result of poor hygiene, said the head of the Institute for Health Systems Research at the University of Witten / Herdecke and co-editor of the AOK study, Max Geraedts. However, whether these figures are to be evaluated as relevant statistics is not sufficiently clarified. The report was based on the AOK data sources from the year 2007. The Aktionsbündnis „patient safety“ had commissioned a study that the authors of the AOK report considered sufficient. As a result, estimates were made of the current situation in the hospitals. (Fr)