Do you fear risks from infection or having equipment or supplies left in a chest cavity? Think about the needles, smells, saws, infection, swelling, and sutures?
Those things are nothing, now add fire to your fears.
Dr Jay Yelon, chief of surgery at New York's Lincoln Hospital, was performing a tracheotomy to insert a breathing tube when his electronic scalpel came too close to patient Enrique Ruiz’s oxygen supply. The patient erupted in flames.
The hospital is being fingered for trying to squash the fury and flames over the catastrophe. See, Dr Yelon didn't mention the fire in his post-op report and when asked directly he cleverly avoided the obvious by stating the flames were put out with ‘no danger to the patient’.
Sounds like Doc Yelon is playing the Obama game of lying by omission. But he does have a point? About 600 such fires happen each year, and many die on the table from the burns..
Ruiz remembers it differently telling his brother he was in extreme pain, ‘I feel like my chest was on fire.' So authorities are taking a look. And hopefully the hospital and staff are finding better ways to isolate the oxygen hazard.
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