The simple fact anesthesia can cause such a deep sleep there needs to be monitoring that a layperson cannot carry out places every patient at these centers at risk for death.
It happened to a friend.
She did everything right, except, have a trained professional at the house to oversee her first 24 hours after surgery. I don't know what it feels like to be her guardian for the night, but, I am sure it haunts him.
The anesthesia set her into a deep sleep at bedtime. It caused anoxia and only after a few hours did she completely stop breathing. By that time it was too late; her brain was dead and reviving her yielded a person without a mind. The average person does not understand anesthesia, it's potential deadly effects even after initially aroused or what full breaths are of a person considered asleep.
The medical professionals and surgery center still get paid regardless of the final outcome of their patients.
That is an absolutely true story about a dear friend from high school. The only people benefitting from that surgery are professionals; doctors, administrators and now lawyers.
That is an absolutely true story about a dear friend from high school. The only people benefitting from that surgery are professionals; doctors, administrators and now lawyers.
March 2, 2018
By Christina Jewett
But like hundreds of thousands of other patients each year, Tam went to one of the nation’s 5,600-plus surgery centers.
Such centers started nearly 50 years ago as low-cost alternatives for minor surgeries. They now outnumber hospitals as federal regulators have signed off on an ever-widening array of outpatient procedures in an effort to cut federal health care costs.
Thousands of times each year, these centers call 911 as patients experience complications ranging from minor to fatal. Yet no one knows how many people die as a result, because no national authority tracks the tragic outcomes. An investigation by Kaiser Health News and the USA TODAY Network has discovered that more than 260 patients have died since 2013 after in-and-out procedures at surgery centers across the country. Dozens — some as young as 2 — have perished after routine operations, such as colonoscopies and tonsillectomies.
Reporters examined autopsy records, legal filings and more than 12,000 state and Medicare inspection records, and interviewed dozens of doctors, health policy experts and patients throughout the industry, in the most extensive examination of these records to date....
