Posted on 02/19/2023 10:17:20 AM PST by CFW
SAN ANTONIO – A San Antonio man who said a hospital failed to sedate him during an outpatient procedure last fall went as far as to get an independent drug screening to prove the powerful drugs were not in his system.
“When I never had that moment where I either felt loopy or had any time loss, or anything like that, it was clear to me that that had not been done,” said Ian Chase, describing his visit to University Health’s Robert B. Green Campus on Sept. 27.
(Excerpt) Read more at ksat.com ...
“In a statement, a spokeswoman for University Health told KSAT:
“I learned that we are working directly with Mr. Chase to answer his questions and resolve his concerns. Providing the very best care and meeting our patients’ expectations are central to our values and why we are here. Clearly, we did not meet Mr. Chase’s expectations in this situation. We will absolutely continue to work with him to reassure him of our commitment to safe, high quality and compassionate care.”
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I suspect the hospital’s definition of “very best care” is a bit different from Mr. Chase’s.
“safe and effective”...
I’m guessing since he wasn’t sedated, they would know his recovery from non-administered anesthesia was rather quick.
I call BS on the patients story. Any outpatient procedure that requires sedation goes through a process. That process would have started at check in and each step would have been reviewed. I know this because I’ve had outpatient surgery several times over the last few years and the process has been consistent. Unless the surgery didn’t require sedation, either the patient is wrong or the surgery center missed several steps which weren’t checked.
Someone stole the drugs.
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Agreed
Junior Mints
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Maybe he didn’t need the sedation.
So he was conscious and in pain while in surgery but kept his mouth shut until he met with an ambulance-chaser?
“I call BS on the patients story. Any outpatient procedure that requires sedation goes through a process.”
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So you think it is doubtful that the outpatient procedures were not properly followed? After the obvious lack of competence by health officials over the past few years, I have no trouble at all in believing the man’s story. If they had sedated him the drugs would have still shown up in a drug test taken six hours later.
Hangnails hurt.
What a pile of poop. If that was the case, he would have been yelling during the procedure.
The hospital:
“I learned that we are working directly with Mr. Chase to answer his questions and resolve his concerns. Providing the very best care and meeting our patients’ expectations are central to our values and why we are here. Clearly, we did not meet Mr. Chase’s expectations in this situation. We will absolutely continue to work with him to reassure him of our commitment to safe, high quality and compassionate care.”
Another pile of cr@p.
Nobody can tell the truth anymore. It's BS all the way down.
My guess: colonoscopy. I had one without anesthetic. I was just some discomfort. Hardly "'intense, overwhelming, and unnecessary' pain and suffering"
For one of my surgeries I was given Versed which is typically used in outpatient surgery. I was also given lidocaine for the area which was being treated. I felt the surgery at one point and said so. The anesthesiologist gave me another injection and the surgery was completed. Afterwards, the doctor came in to check up on me. I told him I felt it, but more importantly remembered it. That’s what the Versed was supposed to prevent.
remembered it. That’s what the Versed was supposed to prevent.
Prepping for GA for an arthroscopic surgery. Waiting as the nurses were talking and doing things and I startled them both when i asked, “am i supposed to hear you?”
More drugs, last thing I remember.
I think he wasn’t given enough to keep him sedated throughout the surgery. Been there, done it. I also live in San Antonio. Fentanyl will be out of a patient’s system in 4-6 hours so unless a sample is analyzed within that time frame, chances are it was gone before analysis completed.
Just saying from my own experiences.
Always have your surgical procedures in a hospital, not a “surgery center.”
There are more people paying attention.
I remember a case in the news many years ago.
The procedure a guy underwent required him to be unconscious AND to have a drug that shuts down all muscular movement. You can't have patients twitching on the operating table. Well, he got the dose of muscle paralyzer, but the tank of gas that was supposed to render him unconscious was empty and no one checked that it was empty.
He was awake and conscious during the procedure, but he could not open his eyes or speak or move because of the muscle paralyzer. He felt everything. When he woke up, he was able to prove he was awake throughout the procedure because he was able to repeat the conversations the doctors and nurses were having while doing his procedure.
Don’t be so sure. I had a procedure done on me.
They told me I would get Versed and fentanyl for sedation. Well they gave me a shot and I could taste the saline but never felt a thing from it.
I could feel them inserting wires in my blood vessels and injecting dye.
At no time did I feel anything in the way of sedation. I was completely awake. And they charged me $1,000 for that shot. Not for the anesthesiologist; that was a separate charge.
There is really no way a shot of fentanyl couldn’t be felt. Fortunately I have a high pain tolerance.
One possibility is the shot that was meant for me (and the guy in this story) went into someone else’s arm. After I got run over years ago my morphine in the hospital always seemed to be missing. Used my cell phone to tip off the DEA because the hospital could be a source for drugs.
Then when they “forgot” my morphine yet again I told them about my tipping off the DEA and they pitched a fit. But they never “forgot” the morphine after that.
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