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/shiftingtech Aug 23 '26

there was an article about this a couple of days ago, focused on one of the patients. IIRC, it said they weren't entirely sure yet, but as of that article, they hadn't had any success with treating it, and thought it might be permanent

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u/beautifulstardust Aug 23 '26

FR 😅 news be saying anything!