Boy comes back to life after parents sign papers to donate his organs

Boy, 13, who fractured his skull in seven places is hailed as a miracle child for 'coming back to life' after doctors predicted he would be a 'vegetable' and his parents signed papers to donate his organs                                   click here

Alfie Evans and Alder Hey?

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Trenton McKinley defied all odds.
After the 13-year-old boy was severely injured in a dune buggy accident, his parents made the difficult decision to donate his organs following days of him being apparently brain dead, according to Fox 10. But after the papers were signed, he miraculously regained consciousness.

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1 in 18 Canadian hospital patients experience harm from preventable errors

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Surprised?

Stroke mistaken for drunkenness

Inuvialuit woman says uncle's stroke mistaken for drunkenness

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N.W.T. orders review of case after niece says stroke victim was treated as drunk

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Medical errors may be 3rd leading cause of death

Is it surprising that death certificates do not record deaths resulting from inadequate patient care‽

 But hospital handovers aren't risky.
Are they? Really‽

When patient advocates are better than doctors

Really, do we need a patient advocate‽

Maybe.
Probably not.
We have regulating bodies like the C.P.S.O. looking after us!

Here's a reassuring article.

Last, but not least, in Ontario we have the

Ontario Hospital Association

Hospital mistakes that should never happen

Wishful thinking‽

Removing the carpets seems to have improved hospital cleanliness

WOW

Medication mix-up

Man given different patient’s medications by mistake

Medical debate over defining death

Medical debate over defining death has implications for organ donors

Doctors need to harvest organs within two hours after the heart stops or they may deteriorate beyond use.

HARVEST! ?‽

The standards for defining death in Canada vary so much that the hospital where a dying person ends up may affect when they are declared dead.

Are there standards?


Paralysed stroke victim experiences every patient's worst nightmare as he hears doctors discussing whether to donate his organs but couldn't speak out

3 April 2014




Donation After Cardiac Death (DCD)
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Miracle? Man pronounced dead comes back to life

Ohio man pronounced dead comes back to life after 45 minutes

This couldn't happen here in Canada, could it?  CLICK HERE

Health at a Glance 2011: OECD Indicator

"QUALITY AND ACCESS TO CARE

Canada’s survival rates for breast and colorectal cancer are among the highest in the OECD. Canada also

does well in primary care, preventing costly hospital admissions from chronic conditions such as asthma

and uncontrolled diabetes. High in-hospital adverse events and long waiting times are a concern."

See CTV article as well.

International comparisons shed light on Canada’s health system

Should all doctors be empowered to make unilateral decisions about end-of-life treatment

See also

End-of-life row toddler moved to US

Website pulls together global information on patient safety, quality care

THANK GOD!

This blog, I guess, is now redundant!

Isn't it?

End-of-life row toddler moved to US

Parents of a terminally ill Canadian boy have transferred him to a US Catholic hospital after an Ontario court ruled doctors could remove a breathing tube keeping him alive.

"Baby Joseph" headed to US with help of Priests for Life and Catholic Hospital in Missouri



Baby Joseph's Struggle a Teaching Moment On The Value Of Life



Doctors Hope Treatment Will Give Baby Joseph The Gift Of More Time
March 23, 2011

Hospital high death rates

Is anytning going to be done to make hospitals safer and better?

Consider checklists, maybe?

Probably not on a large scale.

Battle brews over access to hospital records

Some naively believe reasonable access is possible.

The tooth fairy exists?

It doesn't!

Boo Hoo

Checklists cut surgery deaths

Surprise - Surprise

Wide-Reaching Checklist Improves Surgery

Making a list and checking it twice -- before and after surgery -- appears to reduce complications, including deaths, researchers have found.

Police to investigate death of man who waited 34 hours in Winnipeg ER

Winnipeg police say they have launched an investigation to determine whether a criminal offence was committed in connection with the death of Brian Sinclair at a hospital emergency room.

Brian Sinclair waited 34 hours in the emergency room,

but died without getting treatment

Patient group aims to lift veil on medical errors

Each year, medical errors kill almost 24,000 Canadians, yet many patients say they struggle getting hospital staff to admit the mistakes. That why they've formed a new group calling for that to change.

That's nearly one needless death every 20 minutes!


Patients for Patient Safety Canada




Patients for Patient Safety Canada Launches Nationally



An average of 195,000 people in the USA died due to potentially preventable, in-hospital medical errors in each of the years 2000, 2001 and 2002

That's nearly one needless death every 3 minutes!

Panel to probe Windsor hospitals

I don't find any comfort in this exercise!
I remember the expressions
Self regulation
Self serving

Are Windsor Hospitals really a perceived aberration, in that they perform less properly than other hospitals in other centers?

Grieving Windsor family seeks answers


Rebecca Walberg on Brian Sinclair's
death in the ER and a
Manitoba Health cover-up
S.O.P.
Medical Profession's
Standard Operating Procedures

Mistaken mastectomy probe

Pathologist suspended while tests reviewed


I wonder if the speed at which recommended safety procedures are being implemented are a good indication of the value that the medical profession's colleges et all places on their patients' well being?

How long have the recommendations for Surgical Checklists been ignored or ridiculed?

Province probes mistaken surgeries
The Ontario government has launched an external review into a number of botched medical procedures

This should give us as much comfort as
"Bill 31, Personal Health Information Protection Act, 2004".
We need patient protection.



Fears grip Windsor
in wake of medical mistakes
Is the current system, in practical terms,
self regulating or self serving?

If there is any reason for doubt,
is that the reason we now have fear?