A medical error which could have had dramatic consequences.
As reported NPRan American patient, Thomas T. J. Hoover, woke up as a medical team prepared to remove his heart. The incident occurred at Baptist Health Richmond Hospital in Kentucky in October 2021. Declared brain dead by doctors after an overdose of medication, this 36-year-old man was yet very much alive on the operating table.
“I find it very frightening that these incidents could happen”
“He was moving in all directions, he was struggling“remembers caregiver Natasha Miller who was responsible for preserving organs within the medical institution. To our colleagues, she explains that she heard the coordinator of the Kentucky Organ Donor Affiliates (KODA) association insistently ask doctors to perform the surgical procedure. Noticing that the patient was not dead, one of the surgeons showed up.exasperated” et “very angry“that he was asked to remove the heart.
Following this unprecedented blunder, uno investigation has been opened and is still ongoing to clarify the facts. Several members of the KODA team resigned after this serious incident. “I have dedicated my entire life to organ donation and transplantation. I find it very frightening that these incidents can happen and that there are not more measures in place to protect donors“, lamented Natasha Miller again.
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