Posted on 03/22/2025 6:21:32 PM PDT by CedarDave
A child who died in a Texas hospital after developing pneumonia following a measles infection died as a result of “medical error” — including failure to administer the correct antibiotic in time, according to a medical expert who reviewed the child’s medical records.
Children’s Health Defense (CHD) obtained the medical records from the family of the 6-year-old girl. The parents said they wanted people to know what happened to their daughter so it wouldn’t happen to other children.
Dr. Pierre Kory, who has extensive experience in pulmonary and critical care medicine, analyzed the records and said ... "this case was tragic.”
According to Kory’s analysis of the records, the girl died from a secondary bacterial pneumonia that had “little to do with measles.”
He added, “When I say it has little to do with measles, secondary bacterial pneumonias can happen after any viral infection.”
Kory said the girl “died of a medical error — and that error was a completely inappropriate antibiotic” for treating the kind of pneumonia she had.
The records showed that the girl was initially admitted to the emergency room (ER) for “secondary bacterial pneumonia,” Kory told The Defender. At that time, her measles rash was already fading.
She was not administered the correct antibiotic for treating her secondary bacterial pneumonia until roughly two and a half days later. By that time, she had declined so severely that doctors had already placed her on a mechanical ventilator, Kory said.
Also, it appears there was a delay of more than nine hours from the time when the correct antibiotic was finally ordered and the time it was given, Kory said. “Less than 24 hours later, she died — and she died rather catastrophically … suddenly her blood pressure crashed and she arrested.”
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Your prior pontifications about the wonderful mRNA vaccines make all your statements suspect IMHO. They didn’t age well over the last few years.
This breaks my heart.
“He added, “When I say it has little to do with measles, secondary bacterial pneumonias can happen after any viral infection.””
Nothing like mental contortions to ignore the fact that had the girl not contacted measels she wouldn’t have the backterial infection that lead to her death.
Keep current on your boosters.
Children DO present to ER with MRSA pneumonia, though it is not common.
The risk of MRSA pneumonia INCREASES in cases where the child has a preceding viral infection, especially influenza A.
The antibiotic coverage (cephalosporin and vancomycin) was reasonable, especially if the patient had a preceding measles infection, for the above reason.
The physician doing the condemning has an agenda.
Coverage with a broad spectrum antibiotic and vancomycin is reasonable.
Question: What was the bug that was cultured that killed the child? Does anyone even know? Was it not covered by the given antibiotics?
EVEN IF the causative organism was resistant to the antibiotics chosen by the ER doctor, then, you probably still could not make the case that the care was substandard.
HARD LESSON: Children who are immunosuppressed following a deadly measles infection and who get a secondary bacterial pneumonia are still at risk of dying EVEN if they receive the macrolide (azithromycin) that the condemning doctor advocates.
This child could have died even if he or she had received every antibiotic in the USP.
This is not necessarily a medical error.
Get off your vaxx vaxx trope. Everything solved by a vax. Stop dancing in the kids blood.
She was killed by a medical mistake of failing to address the pneumonia in a correct timely fashion. She came in with a mycoplasma. The hospital neglected to Rx the correct antibiotic.
That hospital is going to get sued beyond mars and some staff are going to lose their jobs,licenses and if they are lucky they get to keep their lives. The family has the medical records
I had a similar situation with my wife about 2 yrs ago when she contracted pneumonia. They wanted to vax her for Covid and send her home with Paxlovid. All so her treatment could get the 20% boost back.
I made it clear that medical treatment protocols require that the pneumonia be treated and failure to do so could “result in bad things happening”. Yeah I can read X-rays. If I wasn’t there to advocate for her she ran the real risk of a ventilator and death.
So you can take your GD jibby jab and shove it. Go find Fauci so you can cyber-fellate him
zek157 wrote: “Keep current on your boosters.”
Another anti-vaxxer speaks.
Whelp..... it’s called a practice for a reason.... to practice on US guinea pigs then go “oopsie” when things go sideways.
Physician heal thyself comes to mind.
It’s because our own govt repeatedly lied to us and forced nonsensical lockdowns and forced people out of their jobs if they didn’t go along with it all..
Exactly —I already had some issues with the amount of vaxxes “recommended” for infants & children nowadays. But the way Covid was handled has left me with NO trust in doctors or the corporate medical organizations.
Most doctors (or whoever/whatever you might get in the rotation) sit there with a computer in their face and plug in your symptoms to tell you what pills to take. Then they get the blood results back and say, take a statin or double up your BP meds ... not take more walks, get out in the sun, take these vitamins. Nothing holistic, no real listening or knowing you like the old family doctors did.
The same doctor that delivered my sister and me also gave us our shots, made house calls, pierced our ears, burned off warts, took care of sprains and put in a couple of stitches.
Now it’s a specialist for everything and CYA with over-prescribing and Big Pharma.
Well, unlike most of you, she actually is an expert in the field of infectious dieseaes.
FWIW, my older brother at 12 years old in late 1961, the year I was born, nearly died from a rare but not unheard-of complication of Mumps - Meningoencephalitis. Fell into a coma, veins collapsing, organs starting to shut down, Last Rites given. He lived and defied expectations that he might turn out a brain damaged vegetable but spent over 2 months in the hospital and getting therapy to learn to talk, walk, dress and feed himself again.
My parents, not wanting to go through that again, made sure I got all the vaccinations available when I was a kid. And I’m glad they did.
MRSA very unlikely just coming to the ER as she did from the community. To ignore the second type of antibiotic — and then take the better part of a day to give her the right antibiotic after it had been confirmed by testing is negligence bordering on manslaughter.
Medical malpractice almost killed me.
I had a persistent cough that kept me up all night. A friend who worked in the medical field told me to go to the emergency room.
The doc examined me and said I had bronchitis and was going to send me home with antibiotics. He left, the nurse came in to give me a once over and she didn’t like what she heard in my chest. She convinced the doc to give me an x-ray. After, the doc says I have pneumonia in both lungs and needed to be admitted for 24 hours for serious antibiotics.
The next day, when they are about to send me home, someone notices that my blood oxygen level has dropped to 70. That got their attention. They did an MRI and discovered I was in the middle of a double pulmonary embolism. I was later told that if they had sent me home, I would have died a couple of hours later.
My grandmother, my sister's mother-in-law, and a longtime close friend who was in her 50s all died after they went to the emergency room after they became dehydrated. Each were small and lightly built and around a 100 pounds. After hospital staff finished giving them the 2nd bag of IV fluid each died within a couple hours of “heart failure”. Hospital staff often forget to take into account that a tiny woman should not get as much IV fluid in a short time as a man or woman who weighs twice as much.
Myself, I had abdominal pain off and on for a couple of weeks. My wife who had worked for decades as a nurse noticed that my completion had changed in a bad way. My wife insisted that I go to the emergency room/ urgent care at our local hospital as soon as they opened in the morning. I sat there for several hours while they let every little kid with the sniffles go ahead of me. They finally took my blood, a few hours later someone finally took a look at the results. They called me back to one of their rooms and said that my white blood cell count was through the roof and that they had called an ambulance to transfer me to a larger hospital where emergency appendicitis surgery could be performed.
I told them no after waiting for 9 hours for them to do something, my wife would take me to the other hospital which they did not like but finally agreed to because I am so stubborn.
I drove my car home, and my wife took me to the other hospital where a surgical team had already been assembled and were waiting for me. Since my appendix had already ruptured the surgery lasted for two hours while they literally cleaned the crap out my abdominal cavity.
The funny thing was how worried the doctors and hospital staff were when they realized that they had left someone with a ruptured appendix sitting in their waiting room all day. I did not actually realize the seriousness of the situation until months later when one of my “probies” (trainees) told me that his dad who was the same age as me and also in good physical condition died suddenly after he had his appendix removed and he developed peritonitis.
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