The procedure was successful.. the pt died of complications ?
I logged on thinking I’d delete some of my “rants” and posts about people being denied pain medicine. Instead I read that a 70 year old man, on blood thinners for a heart condition, was told to take ibuprofen for post-surgical hip pain; told those “heroin pills” are bad, He is now in ICU bleeding out :'( Another man’s neurologist abruptly stopped his pain medicine; he had a massive stroke due to blood pressure spikes from severe pain. He is now on life support. WHEN will #PatientsNotAddicts lives matter?! #prop and #andrewkolodny must be so proud of themselves. #opiates alleviate pain, just as they were designed to do. GOD HELP US! #SaveUsACLU #chronicpain #PainIsReal #GivePainAVoice #painedlivesmatter #dontpunishpain #PainWarriors
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Someone has the basis for a lawsuit here. I hope that they realize that. These kinds of medical errors are something that one learns about as an intern…I was on an Internal Medicine team at a teaching hospital for about two months when I was finishing up my education in pharmacy school. One of the interns was asked to make a medication recommendation for a patient in pain(pt was being treated for peritonitis post appendectomy) and the intern fired from the hip Ibuprofen. The patient was on warfarin for a-fib. The staff doc turned to me and asked what I thought. I brought up the warfarin issue (as well as a couple of others) and the contraindication(s). I suggested morphine sulfate IM, even though and because the patient was an alcoholic. I looked at it as a risk benefit situation where the up and downsides were very real, as opposed to theoretical. The intern got lectured and the morphine IM got prescribed. My point is that giving NSAID’s to one who is on anticoag tx is a major contraindication and a surgeon should know this in their sleep. As to the withdrawal precipitating an a CVA, that is something that I would expect a neurologist to know. These kinds of errors are unconscionable.
Please don’t stop telling the truth! Since when is that ranting! Thank you for telling it like it is…
My husband who is on Plavix, was told by an oral surgeon and then the pharmacist to take ibuprofen after complicated extractions. WE had to explain to them both why that was contrast-indicated with Plavix?? But, that pales in comparison to OMG …on blood thinners and given ibuprophen for post-hip surgery!!!!
God save us all from these jerks!
We need a HUMAN humane society!