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Originally Posted by DanaC
He eventually died. The autopsy revealed that he had bled to death after the surgeon who'd operated on his bowel had accidentally cut into his spleen.
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I recently had something similar happen to my grandma. She went into the hospital for a routine surgery on her stomach. It was suppose to be an out patient proceeder with her home that evening. Instead of being home that night she was in the ICU in critical condition. Something had gone wrong with the surgery and she started to bleed internally. They took her back to the OR and opened her up again to try and find the source of the bleeding. They though it was a kidney that was causing it so they removed it and stitched her back up. 4 hours later she was still bleeding internally and no one seemed willing to do anything more for her. They kept pumping blood into her (5 liters) but none of it was coming out, and because they had put so much blood in her, it was putting pressure on her chest and making it so the respirator couldn't breath for her any more. Doctors said she was now in danger of heart failure because of the pressure on her chest but they still weren't doing anything to fix the problem. They just kept pumping more blood in and telling us "not to worry she will be ok" while the nurses standing behind them are shaking their heads no. My dad called a friend who is a head nurse at a large hospital 20 miles away and asked her what she thought he should do. She told him to take the risk and move her. She said to get her out of that hospital and over to hers, because if she stayed where she was she would die. They moved her and his friend called the head of surgery and asked him to come on his day off and operate. When he opened her up he found her spleen had been nicked and was the cause of all the internal bleeding. He ended up removing half of it as he couldn't fix the hole. She did recover, but it was a touchy few days.
Stupid doctors at the first hospital were the ones who cause the whole problem to start with and they all just stood around watching her get worse. I am convinced she would have died if she stayed in that hospital, and the only reason we were able to save her is because we knew the right person at a better hospital who pulled some strings for us. Not everyone is that lucky, and it really shouldn't be that way.