The hospital decided without authorization to switch from minimally invasive surgery to thoracotomy, resulting in brain death of a 10-year-old girl, and her parents spent the night in the corridor outside the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit. (Photo/Recap from Gale News)
A 10-year-old girl in Fujian found a cyst in her lungs. Her family took her to the First Affiliated Hospital of Xiamen University for medical treatment. However, the family never expected that a minimally invasive operation would push her daughter to a state of brain death.
According to the “Dawan News” report, at the end of 2022, the 10-year-old girl suffered from pneumonia. “I went to the hospital to take an X-ray and found a lung cyst. I asked the pediatric surgeon at the First Affiliated Hospital of Xiamen University, and they said that minimally invasive surgery is possible. When I signed the consent form for the operation, the doctor who asked me to sign said that Dr. Li was the right doctor and there was no major problem.” According to my mother, they decided to perform minimally invasive surgery for their daughter at the First Affiliated Hospital of Xiamen University on the recommendation of the doctor. , “Dr. Li is an external professor hired by their hospital. He only stays in this hospital one or two days a month, saying that Dr. Li is one of the best minimally invasive experts in the country, and let us wait for him to perform this operation.”
At 12 o’clock on March 3, the girl was pushed into the operating room, and Dr. Li performed the surgery. “The operation lasted for an hour and a half to two hours, and the blood vessel was cut. The doctor used a hemostat to clamp the blood vessel, saying that the blood vessel is brittle. As a result, the wound became bigger and blood spurted out, and the scene was uncontrollable, so I called a thoracic surgeon to assist in opening the chest.”
The family members charged that they were completely ignorant of the process of switching from minimally invasive surgery to thoracotomy. I just came out and told me that the child had bleeding during the operation, and some blood vessels were cut. He didn’t dare to say that he had bleeding, and said that he might be sent to the pediatric intensive care unit for observation for a day or two, so it passed lightly.”
The family members believed that the hospital concealed the situation during the operation from the family members. “Our family members didn’t realize it was so serious at the time. We thought it was just a simple bleeding, but it was not at all. The doctor did not dare to tell the emergency treatment in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit that night. When we explained our condition two or three days later, the doctor said that the hemostat touched a blood vessel after being rescued inside that day, which is recorded in the operation record.”
According to the transfer record of the Pediatric Intensive Care Department of the First Affiliated Hospital of Xiamen University on March 3, when she was transferred at 7:40 that night, the girl was unconscious and breathing 20 times per minute. Afterwards, hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy with shock and cardiac insufficiency received intensive care and first-level care. Dr. Li even told his family members, “You can go for an appraisal at will, any operation I perform can stand any appraisal.”
The girl’s mother said that her 10-year-old daughter is still lying in the ward of the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit, with her life hanging by a thread. “She is hanging her life. She is unconscious and in a coma. She is not breathing on her own, and her life is completely maintained by a ventilator.” , the doctor said that as long as the ventilator tube is pulled out, the person will definitely die in three to five minutes.”
In addition, the huge medical expenses are also unbearable for the girl’s family. “It has been more than 5 months since my daughter was admitted to the PICU, and the cost is almost 700,000. When we first started looking for it, the hospital said they would bear 40%. We asked them to file a report, and after we reported it to other departments, the staff of the medical department of the hospital said that they had never said this, and that even if the compensation was 50%, our family members would have to bear the other half.” Mom said, “We reported to the Bureau of Letters and Calls After reporting, the Bureau of Letters and Calls gave us a notice of acceptance, saying that a written reply would be given within 60 days.”
The sad and anxious mother said, “We hope to get justice for our daughter and resolve this matter as soon as possible. The child has been dragged out of shape in the hospital, because of high intracranial pressure, a lump bulged on his forehead and ruptured. Now the wound is completely closed.”
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2023-08-22 09:27:20
