Scandal woman wakes up shortly before the organ removal

US medical doctors have almost taken the organs from a living woman

07/11/2013

In a US clinic, the doctors almost made an almost incredible mistake. A woman already declared brain-dead, with her organs removed, opened her eyes shortly before the operation. Like the newspaper „The post-standard“ reported, the incident occurred in 2009, but was initially not pursued despite the scandalous process. Only after the newspaper had started its own research, the clinic began to look for an explanation.

The physicians at the St. Joseph Hospital in Syracuse, New York, made numerous mistakes in treating and examining the patient, which ultimately results in their organs being harvested almost alive, according to one of the state health reports Department initiated investigation. When the 41-year-old woman in the operating room opened his eyes just before the organ removal, the doctors were also shocked by their own information. At the end of 2012, the hospital was fined due to treatment errors. However, the affected patient will not benefit from this. She had died 16 months after the incident.

In the operating room, the supposed dead opened their eyes
In 2009, the patient was overdosed and admitted to Syracuse City Hospital. Relatively quickly, the doctors came to the conclusion that the woman had already had brain death. They shared this with their parents and received consent to donate organs or remove organs. After all the preparations had been made and the patient was already in the operating room, however, she suddenly opened her eyes. At the last minute the procedure was stopped and the patient was released from the hospital some time later. However, the severely depressed woman died 16 months after the incident.

Concatenation of numerous treatment errors
The mother of the deceased told the US newspaper that neither she nor her daughter had been upset about the incident and therefore had not filed a lawsuit. „She was so depressed that it really made no difference to her“, cited „The post-standard“ the statement of the mother. However, the State Health Department and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, as competent health authorities, have themselves launched an investigation into the incident. This concludes that a scandalous chain of errors has occurred at St. Joseph Hospital. First, the patient had no treatment to prevent the drugs - Xanax, benadryl and a muscle relaxant - from being absorbed by her stomach and intestines. Also, there would have been insufficient tests later to check whether there are still drugs in the woman's body or whether the coma could go back to them.

Vital signs of the patient were ignored
Furthermore, according to the health authorities, the 41-year-old woman did not do enough brain scans to clearly detect brain death. Therefore, the doctors believed that the woman was already brain dead, even though she had indeed put the overdose into coma. Also, the result of a reflex test that a nurse performs the day before the planned organ removal at the foot of the patient and turned out to be positive, too little Attention paid. In addition, on the way to the operating room, the woman showed a movement of the nostrils, which suggested that she was breathing independently of the ventilator. At the same time, her lips and tongue moved. However, the nurse's observations were simply ignored.

Allegedly brain-dead patient received sedatives
It also seems inexplicable why the doctors gave the woman a tranquilizer before the procedure, when she was supposedly already brain dead. The health authorities' investigations revealed that she had been given a strong sedative without being entered in the medical records. To the US newspaper, Professor David Mayer of New York Medical College, the application of a sedative is quite strange. The sedative used sedates the patients to a point where they no longer show any reactions. „But if you need to sedate or give analgesics to patients, they are not brain dead and their organs should not be removed“; stressed Mayer. (Fp)

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