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[S]tudent nurse who mistakenly injected coffee into veins of patient says 'anyone can get confused'
NY Daily News ^
| October 23, 2012
| Lee Moran
Posted on 10/29/2012 10:15:22 PM PDT by Slings and Arrows
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.
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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.
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Doctors contacted by TV Globo's Fantastico said that the milky coffee would have gone directly to the patients 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.
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TOPICS: Health/Medicine; Local News
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I need more facepalm images.
To: Slings and Arrows; MeekOneGOP; Conspiracy Guy; DocRock; King Prout; Darksheare; OSHA; ...
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posted on
10/29/2012 10:17:30 PM PDT
by
Slings and Arrows
(You can't have IngSoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
To: Slings and Arrows
Did the nurse major in Nursing’ or Barista?
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posted on
10/29/2012 10:20:39 PM PDT
by
max americana
(Make the world a better place by punching a liberal in the face)
To: Slings and Arrows; Revolting cat!
Man gets a coffee enema and says “OOOOH!”
The nurse asks, “Too hot?”
“No, too sweet.”
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posted on
10/29/2012 10:22:06 PM PDT
by
a fool in paradise
(Obama likes to claim credit for getting Osama. Why hasn't he tried Khalid Sheikh Mohammed yet?)
To: Slings and Arrows
I have to confess... this is the first time I’ve ever heard of something like this happening.
To: Slings and Arrows
To any doctor or nurse out there. Is there any reason to do a feeding via a drip instead of a quick infusion? Second would any modern medical society order coffee w/milk for NG feeding?
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posted on
10/29/2012 10:24:40 PM PDT
by
LukeL
(Barack Obama: Jimmy Carter 2 Electric Boogaloo)
To: Slings and Arrows
I enjoy coffee as much as the next guy, but this a bit much.
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posted on
10/29/2012 10:25:14 PM PDT
by
Army Air Corps
(Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
To: Slings and Arrows
and what is the punishment in Brazil for rampant stupidity?
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posted on
10/29/2012 10:26:18 PM PDT
by
GeronL
(http://asspos.blogspot.com)
To: Slings and Arrows
She opened her mouth, and this youngster put coffee with milk into (her) veins I hate it when that happens.
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posted on
10/29/2012 10:26:51 PM PDT
by
Michael.SF.
(Obama Lied, Stevens died.)
To: GeronL
and what is the punishment in Brazil for rampant stupidity? They give them a one-way ticket to the USA to live their life as a Democrat.
To: Slings and Arrows
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posted on
10/29/2012 10:29:23 PM PDT
by
Vendome
(Don't take life so seriously, you won't live through it anyway)
To: Slings and Arrows
You got to go light on the half & half when you take it intravenously.
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posted on
10/29/2012 10:30:03 PM PDT
by
Tramonto
To: Slings and Arrows
This may become the new Juan Valdez treatment prescribed under Medicare if you need an IV and you're past 80.
Don't worry, Grandma, it ain't cocaine.
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posted on
10/29/2012 10:30:49 PM PDT
by
DeFault User
(Plugs cause brain damage)
To: Slings and Arrows; Darksheare
Let me be the first to blame...
...Darksheare!
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posted on
10/29/2012 10:31:14 PM PDT
by
null and void
(Day 1378 of the Obama Regime - Barack Hussein Obama an enemy BOTH foreign AND domestic)
To: Cementjungle
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posted on
10/29/2012 10:37:08 PM PDT
by
Slings and Arrows
(You can't have IngSoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
To: GeronL
Election to public office, just like here.
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posted on
10/29/2012 10:39:27 PM PDT
by
Slings and Arrows
(You can't have IngSoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
To: Slings and Arrows
Yup! Everyone should be given the opportunity to go to college. ROTL!!! We all should be brain surgeons too!
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posted on
10/29/2012 10:39:27 PM PDT
by
FlingWingFlyer
(Osama bin Laden is dead, Chrysler moved to Italy and China.)
To: Slings and Arrows
Excuse me, WHAT???? Why would they even PUT cafe au lait in a FEEDING tube in the first place? And these people are blaming lack of education? How about lack of a speck of intelligence? Where do these people come from, and how do they survive to adulthood? Darwin is so obviously wrong... lol
To: Slings and Arrows
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posted on
10/29/2012 10:51:20 PM PDT
by
GeronL
(http://asspos.blogspot.com)
To: Aardvark111; ACK ACK; Al Koa; Angel of Beth; another_bot_for_W; ApeNipples; axe2grin...
I see my hands' True Life Trivia Low Volume Ping List On? Off? Private Reply Please My mother's brother was an MD. He and my aunt served Thanksgiving dinner the year I was six. He crossed the swelling tide two years later. He said two things at this dinner I have never forgotten. Pertinent to this thread he said that rattle snake venom could be ingested without life threatening consequences yet if milk were to be injected into a vein then the owner of that vein would die. That's what he said. I don't even know if it's true at all. If you're planning to drink venom or inject milk please seek the guidance of a medical professional before you do.
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posted on
10/29/2012 10:58:16 PM PDT
by
I see my hands
(Dictators don't lose, you do.)
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