What is the name of your state? New York
About a year and a half ago I had surgery general anesthia was my only option I hadn't eaten anything or drank anything since midnight as directed, I was originally suppose to go in at 11a.m. but the hospital called and told me to be there at 3:30p.m. due to complications that had come up with another patient. I got to the hospital about 3:25 sat in the waiting room for my name to be called for a half an hour and when it was finally called they immediately had me change, and rushed me over to a bed, and rushed through the process of checking my stats. , hooking up the IV. I sat in the bed for about 45 min. waiting for them to come and get me, and when they finally did, they had me waiting outside of the OR for about 15 min. It was freezing infact a nurse even went and got me two more blankets because I was so cold shivering in fact durring the coldest week of January. They finally took me in to the OR and started preparing for anesthesia, they got ready, got me ready and started but something wasn't right, infact something was very wrong. I started having chest pains, couldn't move my hands, but I could still see, I waited thinking this pain may pass but then realized that it wasn't going to when my eyes involuntarily closed, I began kicking my feet really hard to make noise and get their attention considering they were all turned in the opposite direction of me having a conversation about some of the doctors that had previously been in the OR that day and complaing because my doctor was no where to be found. They noticed that my heart beat wasn't right, they turned around and a nurse say that I was turning blue and that I wasn't breathing, the last thing that I remember was a nurse telling me to calm down and then I saw nothing but red and heard a loud beep sound coming from a speaker or moniter in the room.
I later woke up long enough to hear someone explaining a completely different story to my mom than what actually happened, whoever it was told my mom that I had an adverse reaction to the anesthia which was obviously true, that they had counteracted that drug with others that would be enough for not just one person but to put three people out for a few days, they told her that I went into convultions which I did not, the kicking of my legs was totally voluntary on my part as I felt I needed to get their attention because they were to busy gossiping. I managed to wake up durring this, told the doctor what had actually happened (everything i described above) and then I was out cold again and didn't wake up until about 10:15 that evening. With all that happening in the OR, with all of the drugs that were floating around in my system, and with severe chest pains from not being able to breathe they still released me that night in below zero weather there was one nurse in the recovery room, and I was the last patient and she was doing everything in her power to make me eat and drink something, she was tired, she hadn't been home all night, and she wanted to get out of there. Even using the bathroom (they make you go to the bathroom before you leave) I fell asleep and the nurse came in and woke me up, between the time they put me in the wheelchair and the time they got me to the car, which was pulled up to the door, I fell asleep and between the time that I got in the car, and got home ( a 4 min. ride) I fell asleep.
Ok so I made it into my house and remembered all of the lies that I had heard, asked my mom what I said to that guy when I woke up who was talking to my mom and it was just like I had remembered just told him that I hadn't gone into convultions, that I stopped breathing, and saw red then fell right back to sleep. I made myself sit down and tell her everything that I remembered which I believe was just about everything and she couldn't believe it. Decided to wait until we went for the checkup visit the next day and asked the doctor what went on in there to his knowledge, he just put his hands on his desk leaned over it and asked "yeah good question what happened in there, he didn't know a thing because he left me in the OR in the condition I was in to go pick up his daughter and take her home we never took action but something happened yesterday that makes me want to in the worst way.
Is it legal for an employee of a hospital to not tell the full truth to the person that went in with the patient what really happened in the OR if there are complications?
and with all of the complications that I had turning blue, severe chest pains even after the surgery that lasted days maybe even a week not even able to lay down in comfort, and leaving me heavily drugged to counteract the original that had been put into my body should the hospital have released me?
If they could release me, is there a certain temperature they cant release a patient past I believe in was somewhere around or below -20 degrees and it was sometime between 10p.m. and midnight? (Only the file could tell me the actual time)
Now Yesterday:
My uncle has been brain damaged since birth, has epilepsy, cerebral palsey, and diabetes on top of it. He was ordered a catarac surgery for yesterday morning, everything went fine there, but when he got back to the recovery room, they immediately fed him a muffin, would not allow him to take his diabetes medication after he had eaten and it had been written in the orders for the nurses to see and this is medication that he needs so he doesn't go into diabetic shock not insuline but pills. They had him finish his juice and then got him up to go get dressed so they could get the next person in to get ready for surgery and He immediately said he felt very weak and dizzy but they still continued to move him to the bathroom to get dressed. They got my uncle in there, and left him in there alone mind you he said he was very weak and very dizzy just moments prior, somehow he managed to dress himself, and use the bathroom but immediately after he had finished getting dressed he went to move again to wash his hands, moved a bit to fast or had been standing a bit to long and fell, hit his head on the metal post next to the toilet and cut his head open after about 15 minuets of him being in the bathroom a nurse went back to check on him, and he just said help so she let herself in and found him laying on the floor with his head bleeding, a cut elbow, and a bruised knee. This was just visual, he then said that it hurt for him to bend his knee, and his lower right arm also hurt.
The nurse got him into a wheelchair wheeled him over to my mom and i and then persistantly tried to talk us out of taking him to the ER to be checked out. My mother insisted and they hesitantly agreed but were told that her and i needed to stay behind to finish paperwork which we agreed to. The lady doing the paper work was the one that found him on the floor and the head nurse came over saying that they needed to go file a report together, i also over heard the head nurse whisper that she would help the other girl fill ouf all of the forms. So my mom and I went down to the ER with my uncle but in all of the time that we were there in both the recovery room and the ER No one ever cleansed my uncles head after he had fallen and was bleeding from.
We got down to the ER and sat around in a private room for about 45 min. before the doctor on duty came in to check on him, an hour and 45 minuets went by and the original doctor along with the head nurse from the recovery room who did my uncles catarac surgery came into check his eye because I insisted that she did (he had fallen on that same side) and then about 15 minuets later the doctor from the emergency room came in with a nurse to take him to get a ct scan and x rays but supposedly found nothing, they released him with some pain killers and sent him on his merry way, i have contacted lawyers but but dont want to wait until thursday or friday for responses.
I would like to know if it was illegal for the nurses to leave him alone after he had stated that he was very weak and dizzy? I will remind you all again that he was born with brain damage and isn't fully capable of knowing when he is ok to do things and not, that's why he has a legal guardian to make decissions for him.
Are there regulations/ laws that state that his head should have been cleansed after he had fallen?
What about his diabetes medication? The lady that did pre op wrote that his diabetes medication would absolutely need to be taken after he eats and she even highlighted it but the nurses would not give it to him and told my mom to let him have it when he got home. They took his blood sugar level after he had fallen and it rated 209.
I know that this is really long, and I'm sorry but I'm looking for any information that I can get because with these two circumstances and there are actually two more that I'm not listed just in the last couple of months there's got to be some way that I can get them to prevent this from happening to anyone else.
Two ladys one who had the same surgery herself yesterday came up to us in the dr's office this morning and handed us a peice of paper with their names, numbers, and addresses with a message saying go after them and that's what everyone else I've talked to seems to say without me even saying I'm considering it. They say that between the two I should have something or more than enought.
Please help any info or advice from experience would be appreciated
Thanks all and sorry for this being so long,
pink_rose
About a year and a half ago I had surgery general anesthia was my only option I hadn't eaten anything or drank anything since midnight as directed, I was originally suppose to go in at 11a.m. but the hospital called and told me to be there at 3:30p.m. due to complications that had come up with another patient. I got to the hospital about 3:25 sat in the waiting room for my name to be called for a half an hour and when it was finally called they immediately had me change, and rushed me over to a bed, and rushed through the process of checking my stats. , hooking up the IV. I sat in the bed for about 45 min. waiting for them to come and get me, and when they finally did, they had me waiting outside of the OR for about 15 min. It was freezing infact a nurse even went and got me two more blankets because I was so cold shivering in fact durring the coldest week of January. They finally took me in to the OR and started preparing for anesthesia, they got ready, got me ready and started but something wasn't right, infact something was very wrong. I started having chest pains, couldn't move my hands, but I could still see, I waited thinking this pain may pass but then realized that it wasn't going to when my eyes involuntarily closed, I began kicking my feet really hard to make noise and get their attention considering they were all turned in the opposite direction of me having a conversation about some of the doctors that had previously been in the OR that day and complaing because my doctor was no where to be found. They noticed that my heart beat wasn't right, they turned around and a nurse say that I was turning blue and that I wasn't breathing, the last thing that I remember was a nurse telling me to calm down and then I saw nothing but red and heard a loud beep sound coming from a speaker or moniter in the room.
I later woke up long enough to hear someone explaining a completely different story to my mom than what actually happened, whoever it was told my mom that I had an adverse reaction to the anesthia which was obviously true, that they had counteracted that drug with others that would be enough for not just one person but to put three people out for a few days, they told her that I went into convultions which I did not, the kicking of my legs was totally voluntary on my part as I felt I needed to get their attention because they were to busy gossiping. I managed to wake up durring this, told the doctor what had actually happened (everything i described above) and then I was out cold again and didn't wake up until about 10:15 that evening. With all that happening in the OR, with all of the drugs that were floating around in my system, and with severe chest pains from not being able to breathe they still released me that night in below zero weather there was one nurse in the recovery room, and I was the last patient and she was doing everything in her power to make me eat and drink something, she was tired, she hadn't been home all night, and she wanted to get out of there. Even using the bathroom (they make you go to the bathroom before you leave) I fell asleep and the nurse came in and woke me up, between the time they put me in the wheelchair and the time they got me to the car, which was pulled up to the door, I fell asleep and between the time that I got in the car, and got home ( a 4 min. ride) I fell asleep.
Ok so I made it into my house and remembered all of the lies that I had heard, asked my mom what I said to that guy when I woke up who was talking to my mom and it was just like I had remembered just told him that I hadn't gone into convultions, that I stopped breathing, and saw red then fell right back to sleep. I made myself sit down and tell her everything that I remembered which I believe was just about everything and she couldn't believe it. Decided to wait until we went for the checkup visit the next day and asked the doctor what went on in there to his knowledge, he just put his hands on his desk leaned over it and asked "yeah good question what happened in there, he didn't know a thing because he left me in the OR in the condition I was in to go pick up his daughter and take her home we never took action but something happened yesterday that makes me want to in the worst way.
Is it legal for an employee of a hospital to not tell the full truth to the person that went in with the patient what really happened in the OR if there are complications?
and with all of the complications that I had turning blue, severe chest pains even after the surgery that lasted days maybe even a week not even able to lay down in comfort, and leaving me heavily drugged to counteract the original that had been put into my body should the hospital have released me?
If they could release me, is there a certain temperature they cant release a patient past I believe in was somewhere around or below -20 degrees and it was sometime between 10p.m. and midnight? (Only the file could tell me the actual time)
Now Yesterday:
My uncle has been brain damaged since birth, has epilepsy, cerebral palsey, and diabetes on top of it. He was ordered a catarac surgery for yesterday morning, everything went fine there, but when he got back to the recovery room, they immediately fed him a muffin, would not allow him to take his diabetes medication after he had eaten and it had been written in the orders for the nurses to see and this is medication that he needs so he doesn't go into diabetic shock not insuline but pills. They had him finish his juice and then got him up to go get dressed so they could get the next person in to get ready for surgery and He immediately said he felt very weak and dizzy but they still continued to move him to the bathroom to get dressed. They got my uncle in there, and left him in there alone mind you he said he was very weak and very dizzy just moments prior, somehow he managed to dress himself, and use the bathroom but immediately after he had finished getting dressed he went to move again to wash his hands, moved a bit to fast or had been standing a bit to long and fell, hit his head on the metal post next to the toilet and cut his head open after about 15 minuets of him being in the bathroom a nurse went back to check on him, and he just said help so she let herself in and found him laying on the floor with his head bleeding, a cut elbow, and a bruised knee. This was just visual, he then said that it hurt for him to bend his knee, and his lower right arm also hurt.
The nurse got him into a wheelchair wheeled him over to my mom and i and then persistantly tried to talk us out of taking him to the ER to be checked out. My mother insisted and they hesitantly agreed but were told that her and i needed to stay behind to finish paperwork which we agreed to. The lady doing the paper work was the one that found him on the floor and the head nurse came over saying that they needed to go file a report together, i also over heard the head nurse whisper that she would help the other girl fill ouf all of the forms. So my mom and I went down to the ER with my uncle but in all of the time that we were there in both the recovery room and the ER No one ever cleansed my uncles head after he had fallen and was bleeding from.
We got down to the ER and sat around in a private room for about 45 min. before the doctor on duty came in to check on him, an hour and 45 minuets went by and the original doctor along with the head nurse from the recovery room who did my uncles catarac surgery came into check his eye because I insisted that she did (he had fallen on that same side) and then about 15 minuets later the doctor from the emergency room came in with a nurse to take him to get a ct scan and x rays but supposedly found nothing, they released him with some pain killers and sent him on his merry way, i have contacted lawyers but but dont want to wait until thursday or friday for responses.
I would like to know if it was illegal for the nurses to leave him alone after he had stated that he was very weak and dizzy? I will remind you all again that he was born with brain damage and isn't fully capable of knowing when he is ok to do things and not, that's why he has a legal guardian to make decissions for him.
Are there regulations/ laws that state that his head should have been cleansed after he had fallen?
What about his diabetes medication? The lady that did pre op wrote that his diabetes medication would absolutely need to be taken after he eats and she even highlighted it but the nurses would not give it to him and told my mom to let him have it when he got home. They took his blood sugar level after he had fallen and it rated 209.
I know that this is really long, and I'm sorry but I'm looking for any information that I can get because with these two circumstances and there are actually two more that I'm not listed just in the last couple of months there's got to be some way that I can get them to prevent this from happening to anyone else.
Two ladys one who had the same surgery herself yesterday came up to us in the dr's office this morning and handed us a peice of paper with their names, numbers, and addresses with a message saying go after them and that's what everyone else I've talked to seems to say without me even saying I'm considering it. They say that between the two I should have something or more than enought.
Please help any info or advice from experience would be appreciated
Thanks all and sorry for this being so long,
pink_rose