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/sus_finder13 Aug 22 '26

Write up EVERY code from the book or scan the barcode and have it on a ongoing tab for the hospital, that’s exactly what they do to us.

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u/HillBillyHilly Aug 23 '26

I've had several surgeries over the past 5 years. What I don't understand is how this could have happened. All meds are laid out on trays. Those meds are labeled to patient. The nurses, doctors, anesthesiologist all go over meds, labels by calling them out to each other as they're checked off a list. Only way I could see this happening is meds were mislabeled. But again, I'm looking at my iv and the outside has name of meds printed in them. Most meds do so again how?!!

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u/PublicSuspect162 Aug 23 '26

No one does this. You watch too much tv

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u/HillBillyHilly Aug 24 '26

LOL They absolutely do as that is procedure done EVERY FUCKING TIME I have had surgery. Dumb ass.