Posted on 12/03/2016 3:19:52 PM PST by markomalley
Four staff members at the Oklahoma Department of Veterans Affairs Talihina facility have resigned after a resident who later died was found with maggots in a wound, the agency said.
Executive Director Myles Deering said the maggots were discovered while the patient was alive but were not the cause of his death. He said the man came into the center with an infection.
“He did not succumb as a result of the parasites,” Deering said Tuesday. “He succumbed as a result of the sepsis.”
Sepsis is a potentially life-threatening complication of an infection.
A physician’s assistant and three nurses, including the director of nursing, resigned in the wake of the investigation, said Shane Faulkner, a spokesman for the agency.
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This is horrible. Absolutely inexcusable.
Dismantle the damned VA. Turn it into an administration that handles processing and payments to private doctors, specialists, and hospitals.
Seems like some of the maggots masquerade as medical workers!!
He died of sepsis caused by the wound care that was so poor that he suffered a maggot infection.
Sounds like a criminal investigation is called for.
I’m with you on the criminal investigation. All veterans should demand it. . .as well as citizens who really care about our military and its welfare. Vets lives matter!!!!!
Well, there's guilt right there.
I want names and pics of these people so they will live forever in disgrace on the internet
Wow!
The facility needs to be wrung through the ringer.
Sepsis is some serious $#!t.
My eighty year old dad got it. Turns out he had a ruptured appendix! At eighty! The docs said that doesn’t happen to people that age. He Didn’t complain, didn’t tell anybody. Just muscled through it till it got the better of him. Damn near gave me a heart attack. Fortunately we got him into the hospital in time. Took a while, but he recovered.
But this vet was in a place that should be keeping an eye on people. So-called professionals didn’t do their job.
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Not to be letting these dirtbags off the hook, but maggots were the most effective way of cleaning wounds available until quaternary ammonium became available.
Sometimes ignorance can b e embarrassing.
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Is there some relationship between the Oklahoma Department of Veterans Affairs and the federal VA? I don’t know of any relationship between California and the VA system at Palo Alto.
A fellow softball player suffered a ruptured appendix last winter and spent over seven weeks in the hospital and was finally released with a colostomy bag.
He dealt with it throughout the summer until he finally became infection free and ultimately had the bag removed and his colon reattached this fall. He's doing extremely well now............Thank God
Agreed. I didn’t think that was the case here, and you’re right about the utilization of them on occasion.
Makes sense sometimes.
I’m actually surprised Trump didn’t jump on this.
I know the Tulsa World. Well.
Didn’t anyone else notice they broke this after the election?
He should, and talk about how the people in charge of the VA need to get grilled for letting maggots eat a vet alive.
We need a compromise. I think vets like being with vets....so we need both the VA hospitals in addition to access to regular, nearby hospitals and doctors.
Thank God, indeed. I take it he didn’t complain about any pain? Maybe blew it off as something else?
My dad didn’t have to deal with the colon issues. At least not surgically. But given all the other medical issues he’d gone through in his life, he probably just thought it was just another malady, in a long list of maladies.
Born in ‘26. Those folks kinda just took things in stride and kept on going.
God I miss him.
My only thought is that the guy may have been home, and recently admitted.
I didn’t read about it. They may have clarified the point.
At any rate, I wouldn’t want to have to explain this if it happened on my watch.
I could see that being a good idea.
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