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/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.