Hospital gave FIL Narcan after administering too many pain meds...

[Anonymous]

...and they are acting like it's no big deal. He is in the hospital recovering from back surgery. MIL wasn't there at the time and no one even bothered to call her. She found out when she visited him later in the day. Under what conditions would they have administered Narcan? As in, how badly off would my FIL have had to be before receiving it?

[Anonymous]

Well that means he stopped breathing

[Anonymous]

I would say that you probably don't have enough information, but MIL and FIL should be glad that they were able to reverse the effects of an overdose and save his life with Narcan.

[Anonymous]

He may not necessarily stopped breathing. Narcan is to be administered for suspected or known overdoses when signs of breathing problems and severe sleepiness or not being able to respond.

She needs to speak to the doctor on call immediately and find out what exactly happened, how was it discovered, by whom, what steps were taken, what is the follow up, how will they prevent this error from happening again.

Have her Facetime with you or her son while talking to the doctor.

Are you or your husband local? I would no longer leave FIL alone. Someone that is not hospital staff needs to stay with him 24/7.

Unless this is a common reaction to certain narcotics, and maybe it is, I’m not a doctor, I would then start looking into notifying the state licensing board for malpractice claims. And legal advice.

[Anonymous]

Not uncommon. Especially in older patients.

[Anonymous]

News Flash:
Third leading cause of death:
Hospital errors

As much as humanly possible, you should have someone at your side 24/7 if you have to be in the hospital just to double check exactly what they’re doing. Have a notebook to keep your own records. If they complain, I’d choose another hospital. They should have nothing to hide.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
News Flash:
Third leading cause of death:
Hospital errors

As much as humanly possible, you should have someone at your side 24/7 if you have to be in the hospital just to double check exactly what they’re doing. Have a notebook to keep your own records. If they complain, I’d choose another hospital. They should have nothing to hide.

Source for this? The CDC doesn't even have hospital error in their top 10. https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/leading-causes-of-death.htm

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
News Flash:
Third leading cause of death:
Hospital errors

As much as humanly possible, you should have someone at your side 24/7 if you have to be in the hospital just to double check exactly what they’re doing. Have a notebook to keep your own records. If they complain, I’d choose another hospital. They should have nothing to hide.

Source for this? The CDC doesn't even have hospital error in their top 10. https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/leading-causes-of-death.htm

Not the PP and don't know the source. But if someone is in the hospital because of serious injury or illness and mistakes made by staff leads to their death, "hospital error" is not recorded as the cause of death. The underlying illness or injury is.

[Anonymous]

Johns Hopkins University says “Avoidable Medical Errors” are the third leading cause of death (greater than 250,000 per year) after heart disease and cancer.

“The CDC’s way of collecting national health statistics FAILS to classify medical errors separately on the death certificate.”


Yikes!!!!!

[Anonymous]

That’s f’ed up.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:That’s f’ed up.

Sounds like a massive cover-up.

[Anonymous]

This is not uncommon in the hospital setting esp when titrating pain meds or if the patient has a pca. I don’t think this necessarily means there was a medical error.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is not uncommon in the hospital setting esp when titrating pain meds or if the patient has a pca. I don’t think this necessarily means there was a medical error.

You seem confused.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
Johns Hopkins University says “Avoidable Medical Errors” are the third leading cause of death (greater than 250,000 per year) after heart disease and cancer.

“The CDC’s way of collecting national health statistics FAILS to classify medical errors separately on the death certificate.”


Yikes!!!!!

Ok, well OP's FIL didn't die.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is not uncommon in the hospital setting esp when titrating pain meds or if the patient has a pca. I don’t think this necessarily means there was a medical error.

You seem confused.

What is wrong about what they said?