Saturday, August 25, 2012

Kidney For Transplant Put In Trash

A health commissioner says a nurse accidentally disposed of a kidney from a living donor at an Ohio hospital that later suspended its kidney transplant program.The University of Toledo Medical Center suspended the program after the botched transplant earlier this month.
The Blade newspaper (http://bit.ly/P0XEIt ) reported Friday a kidney donated by a man to his older sister was thrown away with medical waste in what medical experts describe as a rare accident. The Toledo-Lucas County health commissioner confirms a nurse disposed of the kidney.
A hospital official has said doctors tried unsuccessfully for at least two hours to resuscitate the organ in an attempt to make it usable.
The hospital blamed "human error" and suspended two operating room nurses.
It's unclear what happened to the intended kidney recipient.

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5 comments:

  1. BASEAugust 26, 2012 at 2:06 PM

    Hope they hadn't placed something else for the kidney...

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  2. UnknownAugust 26, 2012 at 4:10 PM

    Oh, Yeah..Ooops !!

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  3. DavidAugust 27, 2012 at 6:14 PM

    I hear the put a baked potato in there.

    (vague reference, sorry)

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  4. Gabriel SigmaAugust 28, 2012 at 9:14 PM

    What if they made the 2 nurses fight to the death. The loser would give up a kidney to replace the one they ruined? Maybe when Walmart starts running hospitals.

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  5. DavidAugust 30, 2012 at 6:38 PM

    This story gave me a strange vision of them trying to resuscitate the kidney. What were they doing? Zapping it with electricity and doing CPR?

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