The nurse responsible for the mix up still works at the hospital. She was fined $2,800, reprimanded and had to attend a re-training course.

Well there ya go. Totally OK.

Is the nurse or the hospital liable for the lawsuit that's sure to come? I'm guessing the hospital. If they think she's learned the lesson and want to keep her, they're the ones taking that risk.

Pawn takes the King: The nurse responsible for the mix up still works at the hospital. She was fined $2,800, reprimanded and had to attend a re-training course.

Well there ya go. Totally OK.

Well what do you expect them to do about it? Use their time machine and fix it?

Oh holy Jesus. She gave him pancuronium and left him alone. He didn't just "die". He was paralyzed while wide awake, and slowly suffocated to death. That facility had best just whip out the checkbook and start with a seven-figure offer, because they do NOT want a competent attorney to tell the jury what this guy went through before he died.

The hospital's defense: "Hey, his stomach isn't bothering him any more, is it?"

The daily mail? Good thing this could never happen here, where we don't have socialized medicine!

FTF Comments: "extremely disturbing that hospitals have execution drugs,why would they want to stock it?."

Because it's sensationalist journalism, you farkwad.

The article acts like the drug is only used to kill people. It's like saying "inmates administered chemical[1] used in torture[2] on a daily basis!!!!!!"
[1] water
[2] waterboarding

The part that bugs me is that idiots fall for that shiat.

KyngNothing: The daily mail? Good thing this could never happen here, where we don't have socialized medicine!

This happened in Florida.

Rincewind53: KyngNothing: The daily mail? Good thing this could never happen here, where we don't have socialized medicine!

This happened in Florida.

WHOOOSH

dahmers love zombie: Oh holy Jesus. She gave him pancuronium and left him alone. He didn't just "die". He was paralyzed while wide awake, and slowly suffocated to death. That facility had best just whip out the checkbook and start with a seven-figure offer, because they do NOT want a competent attorney to tell the jury what this guy went through before he died.

Yeah, the guy knew he couldn't breathe. Pavulon is labeled with a big red box that says paralyzing agent. Even if the nurse read the order wrong and thought she was to really give Pavulon you don't give it to a patient without having someone at the bedside ready to intubate the patient.

I worked with a nurse who once accidentally pushed potassium because she thought it was lasix. It was at one time packaged in a brown bottle just like lasix - now it has a big red box warning too. She was very upset and killed herself in her garage with the car running a few weeks later.

Had she given the Pavulon and noticed that the patient stopped breathing, and he sure did within a 30 seconds or so, she could have bagged him and called a code, and the guy would probably still be alive. The effect of the drug reverses itself fairly quickly - two or three hours he would have had to have his ventilation supported.

What a horrible death, suffocating without being able to move or cry out.

She has 4 years to pay the fine according to the Board of Nursing.

In every place I have worked Pavulon (and Anectine) are stored in the refrigerator, so if she got it out of the fridge she is the biggest idiot on the face of the earth.

dahmers love zombie: Oh holy Jesus. She gave him pancuronium and left him alone. He didn't just "die". He was paralyzed while wide awake, and slowly suffocated to death. That facility had best just whip out the checkbook and start with a seven-figure offer, because they do NOT want a competent attorney to tell the jury what this guy went through before he died.

THIS

I say give the nurse 10mg of succinylcholine. Just enough to paralyze her for a minute or so and see how she feels. Do the same for the jury and the judge. Bet they hand out a 10 figure settlement in seconds.

/had succinylcholine races in med school.
//whoever stayed sitting up the longest wins!

Rincewind53: KyngNothing: The daily mail? Good thing this could never happen here, where we don't have socialized medicine!

This happened in Florida.

Ah, yes. Florida. Where the biology course requirement for the R.N. got too tough for the students, so they got rid of it.

dahmers love zombie: Rincewind53: KyngNothing: The daily mail? Good thing this could never happen here, where we don't have socialized medicine!

This happened in Florida.

Ah, yes. Florida. Where the biology course requirement for the R.N. got too tough for the students, so they got rid of it.

Really, I used to teach that lab at the local J.C, and Chem for non-chem majors (nursing students mostly).

I thought the new GNs were stupid because they were 20 and I think that about all 20 year olds.

feckingmorons: What a horrible death, suffocating without being able to move or cry out.

This is exactly why I always carry a clown horn.

Cpl.D: Why for the love of fark's sake was an execution drug on a hospital cart in the first farking place? Why the fark was it there? Is there a legitimate use for this drug besides killing off old people the nurses are tired of dealing with?

Yes. Read the thread. Stop buying into bullshiat sensationalism. It's not "an execution drug." It's not a freaking cyanide capsule. It's a muscle relaxant that is used for surgeries that also happens to be part of the process of an execution.

Cpl.D: Why for the love of fark's sake was an execution drug on a hospital cart in the first farking place? Why the fark was it there? Is there a legitimate use for this drug besides killing off old people the nurses are tired of dealing with?

It is used quite frequently in a hospital setting, if you've been intubated - like for anesthesia for surgery- you've probably had it.

All of the drugs used in executions are commonly used in hospitals. Two are used in anesthesia, and potassium chloride is used frequently all over the hospital, although not in a bolus as in executions.

We shouldn't kill people.

JanusofZeal: . It's a muscle relaxant that is used for surgeries that also happens to be part of the process of an execution.

It is actually a paralytic, similar to curare, it is a bit more than a relaxant - same church different pew sort of difference.

JanusofZeal: Well what do you expect them to do about it? Use their time machine and fix it?

This should be criminal recklessness. If the bottles are correctly labeled, this mistake should not be made.

Zeno-25: Why the fark would a drug used for executions be in a hospital in the first place? Sounds just like an accident waiting to happen.

Huh? The very next sentence in the article said it was a muscle relaxer used in operating rooms.
If they didn't store things that were fatal when administered incorrectly then what would they use? Sugar water?

FTA: But nurse Uvo Ologboride picked up a vial of Pancuronium from a locked drug cart and injected it into the former teacher's IV tube.

I most humblie sugjest I have do found the porblem