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<p>“Accident” seems to me not quite the right word.</p>
<p>It doesn’t make sense, does it? This is one of those stories that make me feel that there has to be more to the story than they are telling. It’s really sad for the woman, as she gets no priority on the list because of this mistake. Also, it sounds like the hospital is losing its transplant privileges.</p>
<p>Can anyone possibly imagine how the brother, the sister, and the rest of the family feel? Tell me this is from Onion.</p>
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<p>It’s a sad, and highly unusual story. But people die in hospitals due to medical “accidents.”</p>
<p>That is awful. I have a dear friend whose adult daughter (who has two young children herself) has been in kidney failure and on dialysis for three years now. She is at the top of the transplant list and anxiously awaiting a kidney. Her weight is in the mid 80s now, and it’s getting more and more difficult. So stories like this one just make me so sad for all involved…</p>
<p>This is absolutely true. I know the family fairly well . Also sad to say that the hospital to blame is a place I know all too well. :(</p>
<p>I will say that the program in question is well known, highly successful, and led by some of thebest known surgeons in this field. However this shows that one error can devastate a reputation.</p>
<p>Most important IMO right now, is that this very young woman gets the kidney that she needs.</p>
<p>How, exactly did the nurse throw that kidney away? And is there any chance that she might be a match for the patient. :)</p>
<p>Both the donor and recipient are very young adults. The donor was a 100% perfect match.</p>
<p>To go from the elation of a perfect match, to the stress of two children in surgery at the as,e time to the tragedy of a surgery gone wrong and a absolutely wasted opprtunity of life for your child- it is devastating to think of for this family.</p>
<p>I’m glad that if I screw up doing my job no one dies.</p>
<p>This is my field and I know the procedure that they use in these situations. I’m just completely at a loss to imagine how this sort of a thing could happen given the usual flow of things. Organ is removed from the donor, it is cleaned and processed at a table in the operating room, then walked over to the next room where the recipient has been already prepped and anesthetized. The organ is then placed in the recipient and they are done. The kidney is out of a body for about 45 min total and the whole process is centered on the status of the kidney. So, I’m just befuddled as to where in this process a nurse would have unsupervised access to the kidney and where several people would not be focused on what is going on with the kidney at any given moment. </p>
<p>Sounds like a (im)perfect storm of Murphys Law.</p>
<p>They will probably find a new kidney quickly in this situation. The perfect match part (while it sounds dramatic) is not that big a deal this day and age as kidney survival is excellent even when it is a poor match. Not trying to minimize the family’s angst at all, or the degree of the screw up. If it had been any organ other than a kidney, the recipient could very well have died before another organ could have been found.</p>
<p>ihs76, you said:
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<p>This is what I had always assumed until my friend’s adult daughter went into renal failure and has been waiting for a kidney now for 3 years. She had one transplant (her father was the donor) when she was younger and now that kidney has failed. Her mom always planned to be the donor for her daughter should she need another transplant, but has been told she is too old and is of course devastated for her D. </p>
<p>The very confusing thing for me is that, as time has dragged on for this young woman, we keep hearing that she has “applied” to be on “more transplant lists”. I thought there was one central registry?? This has been so frustrating for all involved, and this young woman’s health has deteriorated badly…</p>
<p>^^ There are multiple transplant centers, each with their own lists and each with it’s own pt acceptance procedure. There are multiple organ procurement organizations that cover different transplant centers. Some private insurance companies will foot the bill for going through the process multiple times at different transplant centers and allow for ‘multiple listing’ and therefore access to more potential organs (by accessing more OPOs). This does potentially decrease the time on the list, which currently runs >5yrs for blood type O recipients, somewhat less for other blood types. It’s complicated and I don’t even know all the in/outs which change all the time anyway. </p>
<p>Medicare/medicaid only allows listing at one center.</p>
<p>I’m a nurse with no experience whatsoever with transplant procedures. But this just boggles the mind. Cannot imagine how this happens…</p>
<p>Now that we’ve gotten a glimpse into the nurse’s side of the story, I just have no words. Inexcusable from many perspectives.</p>
<p>[Report:</a> Ohio nurse didn’t realize she discarded kidney | Fox News](<a href=“Report: Ohio nurse didn't realize she discarded kidney | Fox News”>Report: Ohio nurse didn't realize she discarded kidney | Fox News)</p>
<p>It seems to me that the nurse who threw out the bag of “slush” is much less at fault than the one(s) who failed to label the bag!</p>
<p>^^^^^Failure on many levels. Really just tragic.</p>
<p>After reading this article, it sounds like everyone in that room was to blame</p>
<p>.<a href=“http://www.toledoblade.com/Medical/2012/09/24/Nurse-didn-t-realize-she-took-discarded-kidney-in-slush-during-Ohio-transplant-report-says.html[/url]”>http://www.toledoblade.com/Medical/2012/09/24/Nurse-didn-t-realize-she-took-discarded-kidney-in-slush-during-Ohio-transplant-report-says.html</a></p>
<p>And more news from that hospital:
<a href=“Chinese company announces program to train doctors in Toledo | The Blade”>http://www.toledoblade.com/business/2012/09/25/Chinese-company-announces-program-to-train-doctors-in-Toledo.html</a></p>
<p>Such a tragic situation. How much incompetence can one place have?</p>