From The New York Daily News: A nurse who accidentally disposed of a living donor's kidney during a
transplant said she didn't realize it was in chilled, protective slush
that she removed from an operating room, took down a hall to a dirty
utility room and "flushed down a hopper," according to a report released
by health officials on Monday.
The nurse said she didn't realize the kidney was put in the sterile,
semi-frozen solution because she had been on a break, with a different
nurse in her place, when a surgeon made that announcement during the
Aug. 10 transplant at the University of Toledo Medical Center, according
to a review conducted by the state for the federal Centers for Medicare
and Medicaid Services and obtained by The Associated Press through a
records request.
Hospital administrative staff members interviewed on Aug. 21 hadn't
determined how the nurse took the 13-gallon bag of slush, meant to
extend the kidney's viability, past several members of the medical staff
without them noticing a problem, the report said.
It said poor oversight and communication and insufficient policies were
factors in the kidney's disposal, which prompted the voluntary,
temporary suspension of the hospital's living-donor kidney transplant
program and led to reviews by health officials and a consulting surgeon
hired by the hospital.
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