Hospital Really Sorry About Injecting Man With Execution Drug

I feel sorry for this family. But hospitals must staff their facilities with human beings. Human beings do make mistakes. I will not speculate on the safeguards the hospital had at the time to prevent the wrong drug from being administered or how this tragedy unfolded. I understand exactly why the family is suing, but this should be settled instead of going to court.

As for why the hospital has this drug on hand, it is a muscle relaxant. Many procedures require a patient to not move at all.

What about - The hospital room had electrical power - exactly the same power used to ELECTROCUTE prisoner's or the hospital ward had a door and glass windows - just like an EXECUTION chamber!!!

It is tragic of course, but the real problem is that probably the procedure wasn't followed, or at least the ampule wasn't checked before hand

"Pancuronium"--someone is either kidding or totally stinking kidding with a name like that.

But even if it was a wrongly administered muscle relaxant (and thus perhaps a genuine but temporary mistake), this was later recouped when the patient survived for about another month. His health may have been compromised from other unrelated causes.

This won't keep shysters from trying to use inflammatory propaganda to make a dubious case.

I agree that this muscle relaxant is very unlikely to have caused or expedited this death. None the less, the use of this drug instead of the stomach acid reducer that was proscribed was a mistake. The settlement should remove the added expenses that this mistake generated (ventilator, anxiety medications, etc.) from the bill along with some reasonable (+50%) penalty for not following proper protocol. Beyond this is legal gouging.

Just completed a major surgery in a famed Okla. Hospital and can sure testify to the mim. help giving by the nurseing staff and seems it derieves from overworked and under paid individuals, needing work but not attentive to the needs of the sick and disabled...The newer schooled interns [nurses] seems to care and try as they might to fullfill these needs. The others Older nurses that are careing and problem solving has been promoted to overseeing positions with staff that has been hired from the street or are kept on in hopes they will fall in line. Drugs and alcohol related incidents are apparent in the night shifts. New tech. items are introduced to an untrained staff and leaves the sick and disabled to fend for themselves. This is not a bitch, I was treated exceptionally well by the Dr.'s, Head nurses and new schooled nurses coming in for training but was left to my own defense with those that could care less. I feel a two year time out period should be in place for the nurseing staff may weed out the ones that have become callused to their employment...My heart goes out to this family and the results of a serious mistake that should have been addressed before it happened.

During my military stint a similar event occurred. About half the crew on my ship were dosed before the guy noticed he was using the wrong stuff. I just chalked that up to A+ quality health care from the military!

I wonder how many cases there are of people getting injected with stuff from the wrong bottle?