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bigbee13
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What is the name of your state? Pennsylvania
This all started in December of last year my wife was just getting ready to graduate from nursing school and she was hired by the training hospital. During her premployment physical the doctor said she had a hernia and it had to be repaired before she could start work. My wife is a healthy be it a little overweight 32 year old. On December 22 she had the surgery in the same day surgery unit of our local hospital. Doctor told me all went well he put a large piece of mesh to strengthen the abdonmen however she needed to stay a few days to make sure drainage was minimal. She had 2 jp drains. the next day the doctor and nurse came in to change the dressing and check the incision and neither of them had gloves on. The 24th doctor removed one drain and still no gloves. on the 25th doctor removed the 2nd drain and again no gloves. She went home on the 25th.
The day she came home she was running a sleight fever and for the next 3 days the fever got worse along with nausia, redness around the incision and necrotic tissue. I took her to her doctor and he checked and advised the incision was fine she just had the flu. Doctor prescribed antibiotics.
3 days went by and the fever which eased up for about a day or 2 was now back along with some drainage from the incision. We went to the surgeon and he checked her out he had no gloves on and proceeded to get a syringe(was steryl) inserted into the abdomen and drained a full syringe of fluid he then removed the syringe and squirted the fluid in the sink. He then reinserted the syringe and drained more fluid he proceeded to do this 2 more times. He then prescribed a different antibiotic. When we asked about the necrotic he said it will be fine.
She was a little better for a few days when the fever was back(every time the fever has been between 101 to 103). She now had more drainage which would soak her dressing every 3 to 4 hours. The surgeon was not in so I took her to the ER. The ER doctor Said the incison looked ok even though it had drainage and was looking like it was pushing outward. Her blood work came back with white count over 17000. ER doctor gave a shot for nausia and a IV of antibiotics and She was sent home. That night she felt worse and the drainage got worse by the morning it was filling her dressing in 30 to 40 min. With the dressing off the drainage was just running out. I took her back to the ER and the same ER doctor was still there. He called the surgeon and when the surgeon got there he said enough fooling around they were going to operate again. The next morning she had the second surgery and all went well he said. He said he cleaned everthing up and got rid of the dead tissue. That night she started to spike a fever again. With this surgery they finaly did a culture from the incision. The next afternoon the surgeon came in and advised us that she had contracted MRSA. They would have to surgery the next day to remove the mesh. The next day the 3rd surgery was done and the mesh was removed. She had 5 retention suchers and she would have to heal inside out. That afternoon an Infectious doctor was in and advised that she had also contracted Pseudomonis. She was in the hospital for 3 weeks and than had 4 weeks of IV antibiotics at home. The surgeon advised that the mesh will never be able to put back in and if she gets a hernia again she will have to have complet abdominal wall reconstruction and she would not be able to perform her duties as the type of nurse that she is now. She could still be a nurse just not the type of nurse she went to school to become. This would be due to the restrictions she would have. She is a nurse now however she has to be sooooo carefull with everything she does. She is afraid at times to pick up her kids as she has to be so carefull not to pick them up wrong. We have consulted an attorney however it has been almost 5 months and the hospital still has not sent the medical records.
I guess I am just looking for some words of wisdom and your thoughts on this matter and how it all went. Any and all information would be greatly appreciated. Thank you in advance.
Brian ( a concerned husband)
This all started in December of last year my wife was just getting ready to graduate from nursing school and she was hired by the training hospital. During her premployment physical the doctor said she had a hernia and it had to be repaired before she could start work. My wife is a healthy be it a little overweight 32 year old. On December 22 she had the surgery in the same day surgery unit of our local hospital. Doctor told me all went well he put a large piece of mesh to strengthen the abdonmen however she needed to stay a few days to make sure drainage was minimal. She had 2 jp drains. the next day the doctor and nurse came in to change the dressing and check the incision and neither of them had gloves on. The 24th doctor removed one drain and still no gloves. on the 25th doctor removed the 2nd drain and again no gloves. She went home on the 25th.
The day she came home she was running a sleight fever and for the next 3 days the fever got worse along with nausia, redness around the incision and necrotic tissue. I took her to her doctor and he checked and advised the incision was fine she just had the flu. Doctor prescribed antibiotics.
3 days went by and the fever which eased up for about a day or 2 was now back along with some drainage from the incision. We went to the surgeon and he checked her out he had no gloves on and proceeded to get a syringe(was steryl) inserted into the abdomen and drained a full syringe of fluid he then removed the syringe and squirted the fluid in the sink. He then reinserted the syringe and drained more fluid he proceeded to do this 2 more times. He then prescribed a different antibiotic. When we asked about the necrotic he said it will be fine.
She was a little better for a few days when the fever was back(every time the fever has been between 101 to 103). She now had more drainage which would soak her dressing every 3 to 4 hours. The surgeon was not in so I took her to the ER. The ER doctor Said the incison looked ok even though it had drainage and was looking like it was pushing outward. Her blood work came back with white count over 17000. ER doctor gave a shot for nausia and a IV of antibiotics and She was sent home. That night she felt worse and the drainage got worse by the morning it was filling her dressing in 30 to 40 min. With the dressing off the drainage was just running out. I took her back to the ER and the same ER doctor was still there. He called the surgeon and when the surgeon got there he said enough fooling around they were going to operate again. The next morning she had the second surgery and all went well he said. He said he cleaned everthing up and got rid of the dead tissue. That night she started to spike a fever again. With this surgery they finaly did a culture from the incision. The next afternoon the surgeon came in and advised us that she had contracted MRSA. They would have to surgery the next day to remove the mesh. The next day the 3rd surgery was done and the mesh was removed. She had 5 retention suchers and she would have to heal inside out. That afternoon an Infectious doctor was in and advised that she had also contracted Pseudomonis. She was in the hospital for 3 weeks and than had 4 weeks of IV antibiotics at home. The surgeon advised that the mesh will never be able to put back in and if she gets a hernia again she will have to have complet abdominal wall reconstruction and she would not be able to perform her duties as the type of nurse that she is now. She could still be a nurse just not the type of nurse she went to school to become. This would be due to the restrictions she would have. She is a nurse now however she has to be sooooo carefull with everything she does. She is afraid at times to pick up her kids as she has to be so carefull not to pick them up wrong. We have consulted an attorney however it has been almost 5 months and the hospital still has not sent the medical records.
I guess I am just looking for some words of wisdom and your thoughts on this matter and how it all went. Any and all information would be greatly appreciated. Thank you in advance.
Brian ( a concerned husband)