Anonymous wrote:This happened to my dad. I was there. He was overly sleepy and seemed to be slipping in and out of consciousness. I was very glad they gave him narcan. It can be hard to get pain meds right in elderly people.

This happened to my dad too (terminal end stage cancer). He was also losing consciousness so they administered Narcan to be safe, but it turned out that it was sepsis. I'd rather they err on the side of too many pain meds than too few, but I guess it's different bc he's already dying.

This happened to my dad. I was there. He was overly sleepy and seemed to be slipping in and out of consciousness. I was very glad they gave him narcan. It can be hard to get pain meds right in elderly people.

Thats a lawsuit has op been back for an update?

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Anonymous wrote:Sister had surgery at 8am. Not easy, but done by 10am. She was in recovery but never really woke up. Doctors checked at 7pm when husband expressed concern. They checked and her oxygen was at 45%. Nurse called and the doctor gave her narcan. She woke up, but it was scary!

That’s nuts. I had surgery many times and they were constantly checking me.

You were mighty lucky.

Anonymous wrote:Sister had surgery at 8am. Not easy, but done by 10am. She was in recovery but never really woke up. Doctors checked at 7pm when husband expressed concern. They checked and her oxygen was at 45%. Nurse called and the doctor gave her narcan. She woke up, but it was scary!

That’s nuts. I had surgery many times and they were constantly checking me.

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.

+1 people can negatively react to a pain medication without an overdose.

Someone has revived this old thread? That stat was in error.

Medical Error Is Not the Third Leading Cause of Death

An alarming statistic shared by countless people is based on a highly problematic bit of data extrapolation and has been used to paint all of medicine as untrustworthy.

Hospitals and humans make mistakes. My some spent months in the hospital as an infant and we made sure to stay by his side as much as possible. I can remember vividly two mistakes. I argued with the nurses they were doing XYZ math wrong and they did their way and each time it turned out I was right. One was feeding him via feeding tube. I said she was doing it to slow per doctors orders (pace involved in figuring out the pace of which to push the g-tube feeding from the saline bag) She insisted she was right. When the feeding wasn’t done in an hour she was like “ooops”. I would have pushed harder if it had been meds. Another nurse ignored my son’s silent crying (he had a tracheotomy so no noise). She said she was busy. I was yelling that something was off. By this point I knew how to do some medical care and so started looking at this trash and it was blocked. Again- different nurse said “oh sorry”. Third and nurse mixed two meds. I said he vomits when he does that. It is in his note - please give them separately. Said that she has never seen their. I was right there. She ignored me in my face. He threw up on her 30 seconds later. All over her. The intense vomitting caused the NG tube to come out requiring another x-ray to put it in.

I could go on. This was a national top ranked hospital. We learned a lot to never leave people alone in the hospital. Take notes.

Anonymous wrote:...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?

Do you have a recommendation for a reputable medical malpractice attorney in MD?

Not an ambulance chaser with adds on TV and the side of a bus.

My siblings are both doctors and they are very insistent that we hardly ever take out parents to the ER or let them be admitted. They check them out against medical advice frequently when we do have to allow them to be admitted. They say hospitals are very dangerous places that kill tons of
People with errors all the time, especially old people