Women left awake during abdominal surgery

[Nija]

http://news.excite.com/odd/article/id/337069|oddlyenough|06-30-2003::09:08|reuters.html



Blunder Leaves Woman Awake for Surgery

Jun 30, 8:59 am ET

VIENNA (Reuters) - A woman lay awake during surgery for 45 minutes, unable to move or call for help, after staff forgot to hook up the machine pumping out anaesthetic, the Austrian daily Kurier reported Monday.
The woman was temporarily paralyzed because she had been given a muscle relaxant, and her ordeal ended only after a replacement doctor who came into the operating room saw tears in her eyes and noticed the machine was not connected properly.

The woman, who was undergoing abdominal surgery, is suing for 70,000 euro ($79,970) in damages, the hospital in the Austrian province of Carinthia confirmed


:disa: that's so harsh... At least this one isn't frivolous.

[welfareloser]

that's how surgery was routinely done on children not too long ago. better than havin em die due to the risks of anaesthetic, i guess, but not fun to think about...

[attgig]

if it was america, she would be able to sue for soooo much more

[Nija]

Originally posted by welfareloser
that's how surgery was routinely done on children not too long ago. better than havin em die due to the risks of anaesthetic, i guess, but not fun to think about...

and we wonder why kids grew up to be sadistic penis head :P

[Kim]

Ouch, poor lady!

[johnnymk]

I get SOOOOO sick from anaesthesia..:puke:

BTW,the word "anaesthesia" is really spelled weird. Where did the extra "a" come from?

[Ladogaboy]

Originally posted by johnnymk
Where did the extra "a" come from?

Greece. :hihi:

[coleslaw]

Originally posted by johnnymk
Where did the extra "a" come from? It's a diphthong, dude. ;)

[Nija]

Originally posted by coleslaw
It's a diphthong, dude. ;)

I can think of a few chicks i wouldn't mind seeing in a dippingthong, but one one dude in a diphthong ;)

edited for a visual

http://nobispro.com/aquatank/images/thong-a-thongirl.gif
here stare at that

[mcs328]

I wonder if she felt the pain or if was just the mental anguish. It reminds me of Tales Of The Crypt Episode where the guy could bring back the dead and you couldn't feel the pain. But in the end you could feel pain as the surgeons or whatever buzzsawed through his skull.

[Nija]

Well it did say that she was tearing up but couldn't cry because of the muscle relaxation drugs they had given her, so I would be guessing yes..

[brainsmile]

pain I'd imagine

[speedracer120]

Hell, last year when I had local anaesthesia I could still feel the poking and cutting going on around my knee, they almost had to give me general but the lead surgeon thought it would be fun for me to see him cut and prod my cartilidge through the arthoscope. I think she definitely needs to be compensated. I don't even want to imagine what she was feeling.

[RoniMan]

Originally posted by johnnymk
BTW,the word "anaesthesia" is really spelled weird. Where did the extra "a" come from?

i think the same place the useless z in rendezvous comes from...france.

ouch. this is another reason i'm not having my acl surgery yet. i know it probably doesn't compare, but i'm a wuss when it comes to pain.