bleeding issues/doc bad call

[babycake]

i had a normal run on dialyis on wed
 and i came home and things seem to had been good
thrusday morn i woke up at 2am and had some blood from from arm
so i changed the dessing and went back to bed a few hours later i ad to change it again
the 3rd time i end up calling my mom and we were going to go to urgent care as to find out they didnt open up u till later
so ended up at e.r
i ended up having to have a baloon in my fistula site
and i didnt think of this after, he didnt do a ulter sound to even think i needed a baloon, unless he had look at my records prior,,, i dont know
he seem to had been a good doc, for he and his brother are pretty well known. but yet he was a idiot
for he made 2 mistakes

1. sending me home still bleeding.
where i  ended up coming back to the er 3hours after i had came home
and they ended up giving me plasma, to stop the bleeding
which they had done before releasing me the first freakng time

and 2
tellibg me that i could take the dressing of before i went to bed
i dont think so

the salem hospitol is getting to be bad

[big777bill]

Babycake is that Salem NJ?

[babycake]

no
salem oregon

[dialysisadvocate]

You can report this to the state for investigation and if the state finds wrongdoing they will be cited ---and, you can also send a letter or speak with the administrator of the hospital and let them know --- Also, if the patient has a family/patient advisory council you can notify them. I state this becauswe if it happened to you, chances are it is happening to other patients. Having been greatly involved in hospital advocacy, they will appreciate the information - you just tell them you don't want it to happen to anyone else and therefore, you are sharing your experience

opinion of Roberta Mikles RN BA www.qualitysafepatientcare.com

[smokinbeaver]

bIG777bILL, THATS  what I wondered at first too, was it the hospital in Salem, NJ. We used to live in Pennsville, NJ, and it was bad care with a case of cellulitis my husband came down with, that brought on the spiral to kidney disease and dialysis for my husband yrs ago. He spent 4 days in the ICU because of sepsis. A total 2 weeks in the hosp. and they sent him home on a guerney by ambulance, where they deposited in our bed at our home because they couldn't get him into a nursing home/rehab place. Insurance wanted him out, and they couldn't find room anywhere. I ended up taking care of him because he was bedridden, weak, and couldn't walk. They gave him rehab at our house with nurses coming to check up on him 2x week. He was eventually able to walk and take care of himself again after a couple months. It was nightmare.

Sharon

[babycake]

my mom had a old bf that died a numbers yrs back
he had gone to the docs for he wasent feeling good
 and his doc literly drove him to the hospitol himself
for he was having a heart attack
 he was in the hospitol about a week
 and  his sister was a retired nurse from eastern oregon
 they called her and said hes ready to go home and you need
to pick him up
 she said that he was not ready. but they insisted
 so she came and got him and brought him to her
home
  and a few days later he died

  i think his sister or even his kids should had sued the hospitol
for kicking him out