A cascade of errors saw a patient's blood sample mixed up, resulting in her receiving the wrong blood type in a transfusion, top staff admitted.
A Texas hospital patient died in December after being given the wrong blood type during a transfusion operation, medical officials have said.In a deficiency report, top staff at Houston’s Baylor St. Luke's Medical Center released a timeline of events that led to the death of the 75-year-old woman first admitted to the facility on December 2, 2018. She showed signs of bleeding into areas surrounding the brain.
” He said the timeline described in the report “simply does not meet our standards or expectations.”He wrote: “These findings are the initial results from a review by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services of a patient death following a blood transfusion error in the Emergency Department. CMS reviewers found significant deficiencies that led to this incident in December. It is our responsibility to learn from these mistakes, and we take this responsibility very seriously.
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