Up to 10 hospital patients in Oregon died from tap water injections instead of fentanyl: report
Inside sources within Asante have since disclosed details surrounding the reported deaths, per NBC5 News. It is alleged that up to 10 patients died of infections contracted at the hospital.
The sources claim the infections were caused by a nurse who purportedly substituted medication with tap water.
It is alleged that the nurse was attempting to conceal the misuse of the hospital's pain medication supply — specifically fentanyl — and intensive care unit patients were injected with tap water, causing infections that resulted in fatalities.
Medford police have confirmed their active investigation into the situation at the hospital but have refrained from providing specific details.
The sources indicate that the unsterile tap water led to pseudomonas, a dangerous infection, especially for individuals in poor health, commonly found in a hospital's ICU.
At a guess, are those flushes inventoried and accounted for? Would someone notice if they came up short?
I don't know this hospital, but I generally grab several when I come on shift, put them in my pocket, and end up accidentally taking home a few often enough that I'd end up being able to have squirt gun fights with them.
Essentially, nurses go through so many that you'd be hard pressed to control them. We use them for everything from checking the status of an IV line to cleaning a wound.
$83 per person for squirt gun fights right there, if my bill is anything to judge.
Did they use an entire case? That's around 60 flushes.
According to your bill 1 Tylenol is $500
$17 per pill. Seems pretty reasonable.
The fentanyl, however, was worth it.
Lol no, those saline flushes are found by the handful in supply closets.
And even if they were inventoried (which they're not) there still are always a zillion partially used bags littered everywhere, which in most cases are effectively still sterile.
No, they are so abundant that it'd.be impossible. Now the hanging bags of saline, yes