Brazilian student nurse accidentally injects patient with coffee - 'anyone can get confused' - Polidicks

[img]http://i.imgur.com/KXPly.jpg[/img] [quote]Rejane Moreira Telles, 23, said she had just three days of work experience when she mixed up administering a drip to a patient. A student nurse who mistakenly injected coffee into the veins of an 80-year-old patient who died hours later has defended herself by saying "anyone can get confused." Rejane Moreira Telles, 23, said she had just three days of work experience in the Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, clinic when she mixed up administering a drip to Palmerina Pires Ribeiro. She appeared on TV Globo's Fantastico show where she said she was aware of the risk of administering an intravenous feed. But she added: "As they [the feed and blood drips] were next to each other, anyone can get confused. I injected the coffee and I put it in the wrong place." Telles, who has been indicted for involuntary manslaughter alongside two nurses and another student, also revealed they had not been trained for that kind of procedure. Riberio died last week at a clinic in São João de Meriti, in the Baixada Fluminense region of Rio de Janeiro. Doctors contacted by TV Globo's Fantastico said that the milky coffee would have gone directly to the patient’s heart and lungs. Dr. Armando Carreir, a nutritional specialist at the Federal University of Fluminens' Hospital Antonio Pedro, said 'It would have been as if the patient was suffocating.' The victim's daughter, Loreni Ribeiro, said “I saw my mother was agitated. She opened her mouth, and this youngster put coffee with milk into (her) veins.” [/quote] [url=http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/nurse-kills-patient-injecting-coffee-drip-article-1.1189969]SOURCE[/url]

That must of hurt...

How the fuck do you mix up coffee with medicine that kept him alive?!?! You'd think you'd be more careful when, you know, someone's life is in your hands

HUE HUE HUE HUE HUE HUE Anyways, I feel sorry for the old guy who died, what a very stupid mistake.

why would you have coffee ready to be injected into someone's veins again

All I can think of is "oops".

[QUOTE=The golden;38184288]My sister is a emergency paramedic and I have been in and out of hospitals for the past 7 years with her due to her medical conditions, so I've seen how they handle medicine injections. They either A) The medicine is delivered in a sealed and sterile package and in that package is a capped and sealed single-use syringe which can either be given via needle or the tip can be removed and connected to a IV/PICC line. B) The medicine comes in a small container which is is then punctured by a syringe needle (which comes in a single-use sterile package) and is extracted. The container and syringe are single-use and discarded afterwards. How do you fuck up this badly. Like there are not even any words to describe how badly she fucked up.[/QUOTE] She was probably playing with a used needle and remember she was supposed to inject something into a paitent an hour ago.

[QUOTE=0FucksGiven;38184156]why would you have coffee ready to be injected into someone's veins again[/QUOTE] Most likely a enteral feeding bag (feeding tube), but that's not normally coffee (it's usually a specific vitamin mixture connected to a pump). Maybe it was a coffee enema or something (oh god death by intravenous enema)

[QUOTE=The golden;38184288]My sister is a emergency paramedic and I have been in and out of hospitals for the past 7 years with her due to her medical conditions, so I've seen how they handle medicine injections. They either A) The medicine is delivered in a sealed and sterile package and in that package is a capped and sealed single-use syringe which can either be given via needle or the tip can be removed and connected to a IV/PICC line. B) The medicine comes in a small container which is is then punctured by a syringe needle (which comes in a single-use sterile package) and is extracted. The container and syringe are single-use and discarded afterwards. How do you fuck up this badly. Like there are not even any words to describe how badly she fucked up.[/QUOTE] This is how it happened. "Hmm, I need to inject this medication. Which package is it? Well damn, this one is sealed in some sort of plastic, can't be that one. OH! Look! Brown stuff in a coffee pot, sitting under the coffee machine... Probably medicine. Mmm, this medicine smells just like coffee, it is amazing what scientists can do these days."

[QUOTE=Squad;38184389]This is how it happened. "Hmm, I need to inject this medication. Which package is it? Well damn, this one is sealed in some sort of plastic, can't be that one. OH! Look! Brown stuff in a coffee pot, sitting under the coffee machine... Probably medicine. Mmm, this medicine smells just like coffee, it is amazing what scientists can do these days."[/QUOTE] You have to write that in portuguese though

Do they keep their medicines in mugs and paper cups over in Brazil then?

[QUOTE=obdob;38184768]Do they keep their medicines in mugs and paper cups over in Brazil then?[/QUOTE] No! That's just silly! They [b]obviously[/b] drink their coffee out of IV bags [img]http://data.whicdn.com/images/14316623/Starbucks-IV-bag_large.jpg[/img] frickin brazilians

"If I injected him with the coffee, then what did I just drink!?"

This is such a bad fuck-up that it almost seems intentional.

[QUOTE=Doctor Dave;38184119]HUE HUE HUE HUE HUE HUE[/QUOTE] Thanks, now this is how I imagine that nurse. [IMG]http://i.imgur.com/ZUilb.png[/IMG]

There is no way she could have done this by accident.

[QUOTE=The golden;38185920]How do you even hold the syringe in your hand and not wonder why the fuck [B]THE FLUID INSIDE IS BROWN RATHER THAN CLEAR.[/B][/QUOTE] But blood isn't clear

[QUOTE=sonny99;38186006]But blood isn't clear[/QUOTE] You're right, blood isn't clear, but the bag had IV fluids in it, not blood. This thing: [img]http://i.imgur.com/hxVk7.jpg[/img]

[QUOTE=sonny99;38186006]But blood isn't clear[/QUOTE] Why would you inject blood ?? Damn late as usual.

I'm pretty sure there are safer ways to get caffeine into your system.

this makes absolutely no sense. so, if im reading this straight and from the incredibly intelligent girl's perspective, the hospital (for one reason or another) had an IV bag of, i assume, black coffee lying around, and this woman saw that big black drip bag full of dark brown liquid and though "that looks like it belongs in a patient's blood system"? i mean, fucking really? I think the bigger question is "why the fuck was their a bag of brewed coffee in an IV bag at a hospital in the first place", and the lesser but more fundamental question "seriously? fucking why?" i mean, arent you supposed to know whats in an IV drip bag before you inject it into some poor bastard?

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When my Grandmother was in hospital, her IV feeding tube was a different colour to the other tubes (purple vs. clear), seems pretty simple but it'd most likely have stopped this situation from happening.

I'd kinda like to know how a student nurse who had been at the hospital for only three days was allowed to administer anything without some kind of oversight.

I hate myself so fucking much right now FUCK my sides oh god please stop laughing no

Did this make anyone think of SS13

[QUOTE=wraithcat;38188087]I'd kinda like to know how a student nurse who had been at the hospital for only three days was allowed to administer anything without some kind of oversight.[/QUOTE] Because she works at a clinic in Rio De Janeiro. More then likely they're operating in a Favela, which are pretty much slums. Would explain their possible lack of modern medical equipment that would keep something like this from happening.

Impossible this was a mistake, most syringes come pre-made or have to be taken out from tiny bottles. No way in hell can she explain a story to actually make what she did believable.

"In other news ultra-low cost lethal injection is discovered; Texas budget deficit is balanced"

I'm sorry for trailing off, but this annoys me so much. [QUOTE=duno;38184103]must of[/QUOTE] [B][U]MUST HAVE[/U][/B] Thank you.