Posted on 07/14/2021 11:41:37 AM PDT by billorites
A patient at University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center received a kidney transplant intended for another person. The hospital is now investigating how the the mix-up happened and two caregivers have been placed on administrative leave, CBS affiliate WOIO reports.
"We are dismayed that an error recently occurred resulting in one patient receiving a kidney intended for another. The kidney is compatible and the patient is recovering as expected. Another patient's transplant surgery has been delayed," University Hospitals said in a statement obtained by WOIO.
The hospital said it is carefully reviewing the situation and has notified the United Network for Organ Sharing, which manages the national organ transplant system.
The hospital also said it has apologized to the families and that this "situation is entirely inconsistent with our commitment to helping patients return to health and live life to the fullest." CBS News has reached out to the hospital system for more information and is awaiting response.
Such errors are rare but have happened before — such as a 2019 incident when a hospital in New Jersey mixed up two patients waiting for kidney transplants. In that case, the two patients had the same name and were similar in age. Fortunately, the kidney did turn out to be a match. Had the organ been transplanted into someone who was not a match, the result could have been deadly.
About 39,000 organ transplants were performed the U.S. in 2020 — the majority of them kidney transplants, according to the U.S. Health Resources and Services Administration. It also reports there were nearly 107,000 Americans on waiting lists for a transplant.
The U.S. has the highest-performing organ donation and transplant system in the world, even in the midst of a global pandemic, according to the United Network for Organ Sharing, a private, nonprofit organization that manages the U.S. organ transplantation system under contract with the federal government.
The doctor used to play for the Browns, he’s just keeping it in the family.
LOL!.....................I looked for that!................
Do they at least get their co pay refunded?
i had to dig just about gave up
Imagine being wheeled into the OR to donate your kidney to a loved one.
Then waking up to find out your kidney went to someone else.
The one who received it will still be taking anti rejection drugs for the rest of their life. They opened up some new major health issues for them.
So that means your actual performance is not consistent with your what you've "committed" to do. I should think that at the very least the person who is responsible for this inconsistency should be out of a job, although I won't hold my breath until that happens.
Now we both have it!....................
These days they usually write on you, DH’s hand was recently written on with arrows and all, I know someone who was written on when she went in for a caesarean, she thought it would be obvious.
Carol Burnett had Storefront Hospital as a skit.
It would have fit in as well.
I know what the article says and does not say, thank you.
What was the reason the person whom accidentally got the kidney at the hospital? Was it for a kidney transplant or an ingrown toenail?
That the kidney isn’t being rejected is beside the fact.
It’s always rejected; that’s why the recipient must take anti-rejection drugs the rest of his life.
It’s being called “compatible.”
That means it’s a close fit to the genetics of the recipient. It’s true any transplant recipient needs anti-rejection drugs, but wrong blood type, bad genetic match up, etc. can end an organ (or a life) quickly, regardless of anti-rejection drugs.
Evidently the patient that got the kidney has some bad kidney disease because you can live with one kidney. I think I’d rather live with one than have to have to immunosuppressant meds for a lifetime.
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Can see the next story. Lawyer trampled to death by other lawyers trying to get to patient in Hospital denied kidney transplant in error.
Like the approach and landing checklist items
Landing gear lever is in the down position
Landing gear down light is on.
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