A woman’s peripheral IV infiltrated while giving birth:
Memorial Hospital of Belleville and a nurse are named in a medical malpractice lawsuit filed by a woman who claims she sustained IV infiltration while delivering a full term infant.Trecia Lash alleges that on July 29, 2005, the hospital and nurse Debra Sakho failed to recognize her distress after she complained of severe pain at the intravenous infusion site in her left hand.
(via Radical Doula)
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Is she suing because there was an infiltration, or is she suing because it was not recognized and managed promptly enough?
Does she have pain that will eventually resolve on its own, or did the infiltration result in actual tissue damage?
Another news article devoid of facts, from which we are supposed to draw conclusions about a) the appalling state of American health care or b) the appalling litigiousness of the American public (take your pick).
Please. The above comment is one of those “Oh, I just can’t make up my mind, so they’re all crooks”. What happened to “Res ipsi loquioter” or whatever? The thing speaks for itself. She and her lawyers are filing what is known in the common aprlance as a “frivolous lawsuit”. A million women have been given pitocin, and even more have had infiltrated IV’s. And how many patietns out there can ANYONE on this website rememeber losing “consrtium” with his wife (which I take to mean no sex, probably the worst part of the whole case)?
i have suffered from an infiltrated iv during a wisdom tooth extraction. as a result i had nerve damage , i was in constant pain and lost fine manual dexterity, i had to get surgery and am still going through physical therapy.
IV infiltration can be really harmful and painful. The truth is that you will suffer at least a week (usually a few weeks) of swelling, bruising, and severe pain in the area of the infiltration. There’s also the risk of phlebitis which could result in scar tissue forming in the vein and making it unusable in the future for IVs/bloodwork and possibly causing circulatory problems.
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