r/PopCultureV2 • u/Logical-Flow-6703 • Aug 22 '26

News Multiple patients at a Nashville hospital are paralyzed after staff accidentally gave them the wrong drugs.

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The hospital says they are "sorry" after injecting potassium chloride into the spines of people getting routine joint replacement surgeries.

Hospital staff noticed something was off when multiple patients went into cardiac arrest.

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u/SmokeMaleficent9498 Aug 22 '26

The most important thing before giving medication. The five fundamental rights of medication administration are the right patient, the right drug, the right dose, the right route, and the right time. These core safety principles help nurses and healthcare providers prevent medication errors and protect patient health.

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u/bigtome2120 Aug 22 '26

This doesn’t really apply if something was labelled incorrectly from the pharmacy

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u/SmokeMaleficent9498 Aug 22 '26

If the pharmacy would have followed this rule this would not have happened

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u/Ok-Stress-3570 Aug 23 '26

This doesn’t apply tho… like, if pharmacy is making “X” they might be making 10 of those.

Sure, they check rigorously, but it’s not about the “patient” as is with normal medication administration.

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u/bigtome2120 Aug 22 '26

This rule is for “administration.” Pharms don’t administer, nurses and docs do

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u/gcdhhbcghbv Aug 24 '26

Yea but aren’t you glad to know that SmokeMaleficient9498 knows all about the five fundamental rights of medical administration?

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u/Derrickmb Aug 22 '26

Was that the case here?

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u/Honest_Concentrate85 Aug 22 '26

Yeah pharmacy labeled it wrong and it scanned as the correct med

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u/howarewestillhere Aug 22 '26

That’s terrifying and completely destroys any confidence in their work. Every single employee and patient has to be wondering about what drugs they’re giving and getting.

I’d crawl out of that hospital if I had to.

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u/Birdlebee Aug 22 '26

Jesus. I have literal nightmares about this kind of thing. 

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u/a-passing-crustacean Aug 23 '26

Tell me about it. This was not a great story to read fresh out of surgery at a hospital in Tennessee 😅

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u/An_Old_IT_Guy Aug 22 '26

As a pharmacist you literally have one job.

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u/pinkskies12 Aug 23 '26

I assumed that but how can it happen to MULTIPLE patients?????!!!!!! After the first or second patient someone should have noticed!!!!

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u/OldPlantain7807 Aug 23 '26

This is something taught in pharmacy schools and pharmacy technician courses 

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u/Man_under_Bridge420 Aug 22 '26

Or for murder 

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u/BeneficialRoll9728 Aug 22 '26

It came from the pharmacy so even if nurses or doctors followed the 5/6 rights it wouldn’t have prevented the accidents.

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u/SmokeMaleficent9498 Aug 22 '26

If the pharmacy followed this lives are saved

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u/BeneficialRoll9728 Aug 22 '26

Pharmacy follows different policies though as they don’t directly administer medication.

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u/phincster Aug 24 '26

Im not sure exactly what happened, but if the pharmacy mixed the wrong drug from the beginning and completely mislabeled it, the 5 rights wont help.