A Thai woman and her husband filed a complaint against a hospital in Chon Buri after a doctor amputated the woman’s fingers and toes during her visit to the hospital for severe diarrhoea. This incident, which took place on April 12, has sparked controversy and speculation, with some netizens suggesting that the amputation was performed to save her life.

 

The husband, Chai, shared his wife’s harrowing experience with Channel 3 on June 26. According to Chai, his 30 year old wife began experiencing severe diarrhoea, leading the 42 year old to rush her to a local hospital. However, due to her critically low blood pressure, she was immediately admitted to the emergency room.

 

Upon arrival, the doctor informed Chai that his wife was suffering from kidney failure and required dialysis. To proceed with the necessary procedures, Chai was presented with a consent form requesting permission for a carotid duplex ultrasound. Trusting in the doctor’s expertise, Chai signed the document, despite his wife’s expressed concerns about undergoing surgery.

 

However, to Chai’s astonishment, he later discovered that the surgery performed on his wife was an appendectomy, a procedure unrelated to her initial condition. Throughout her hospital stay from April 12 to 20, Chai noted that his wife did not see or interact with any doctors, as it was the Songkran holiday period, during which most doctors were unavailable.

 

As time went on, Chai noticed a worrying change in his wife’s condition. Her fingers and toes turned dark, appearing lifeless. Additionally, she seemed disconnected and unresponsive during conversations. It wasn’t until April 24 that the doctor questioned Chai and his wife about any prior infections. It was then revealed that she had developed sepsis, a serious blood infection, leading to reduced oxygen levels and the subsequent darkening of her extremities.

 

By Petch Petpailin

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This is pure madness!!
You go to hospital for a diarrhoea and you end up with your fingers and toes amputated.... bloody hell!!!!
 

8 minutes ago, marioc said:

This is pure madness!!
You go to hospital for a diarrhoea and you end up with your fingers and toes amputated.... bloody hell!!!!

Her initial outward symptoms may only have been diarrhoea but at the hospital she was found to be suffering from kidney failure and in the midst of a hypotensive crisis.

 

She then needed dialysis so that means she had only 10 - 15% of her kidney function left.

 

This does not sound like just a simple case of mild food poisoning and "the runs." She was having serious, serious kidney problems.

22 minutes ago, marioc said:

This is pure madness!!
You go to hospital for a diarrhoea and you end up with your fingers and toes amputated.... bloody hell!!!!
 

Read the article. Kidney failure!

5 hours ago, marioc said:

You go to hospital for a diarrhoea and you end up with your fingers and toes amputated.... bloody hell!!!!

The truth is she should have run to the nearest hospital at the first sign of any gangrene

 

They may have saved her life, for a while.

 

Horrid, what a horror story.

Her right hand seems to be totally gangerous-not "just" her fingers? 

 

I'm no medic, others here would have such knowledge, but how did kidney issues lead to her being chopped up?

 

Possibly the lack of senior doctors having a ball for Songkran. 

Sounds like Sepsis following her original surgical procedures... Sepsis is a fatal condition often needing amputation to save the person's life...

7 hours ago, marioc said:

This is pure madness!!
You go to hospital for a diarrhoea and you end up with your fingers and toes amputated.... bloody hell!!!!
 

It looks like sepsis.. amazing how few people know about a bigger killer than heart attacks

21 minutes ago, harleyclarkey said:

Horrid, what a horror story.

Her right hand seems to be totally gangerous-not "just" her fingers? 

 

I'm no medic, others here would have such knowledge, but how did kidney issues lead to her being chopped up?

 

Possibly the lack of senior doctors having a ball for Songkran. 

Looks very like sepsis from her original surgical procedure.. sepsis is an immune system failure following what was most likely a very mild injection......

6 hours ago, bignok said:

Read the article. Kidney failure!

Sepsis causes multiple organ failures due to the lack of ability of the blood to carry oxygen (hence the Kidney failure).. you can die in as little as two hours... more people die of sepsis than heart attacks and many "survivors" have had limbs amputated..

It looks like they waited way to long to get help.  

1 hour ago, harleyclarkey said:

Horrid, what a horror story.

Her right hand seems to be totally gangerous-not "just" her fingers? 

 

I'm no medic, others here would have such knowledge, but how did kidney issues lead to her being chopped up?

 

Possibly the lack of senior doctors having a ball for Songkran. 

 

11 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

It was then revealed that she had developed sepsis, a serious blood infection, leading to reduced oxygen levels and the subsequent darkening of her extremities.

 

We recently had a topic about a hospital leaving some dressings or gauze inside a woman and now this...... which is a confusing report. but is suggesting some incompetence in the hospital. 

This case belongs in the hospitals risk management committee for review and not the media to determine what happened, what went wrong and learn from mistakes…

 

nosocomial infections are very common in hospitals and unfortunately all admitted hospital patients are at risk at some level 

Be grateful. He saved her life.

13 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

it was the Songkran holiday period, during which most doctors were unavailable.

Better not get sick during songkran .

"critically low blood pressure" followed by an appendectomy - perforated appendix that had been leaking for some time, hence post op sepsis? 

 

The editor has read a medical dictionary I believe...Could not write it in common language?

So is her diarrhea better?

8 minutes ago, redwood1 said:

So is her diarrhea better?

I think that is now the least of her problems, although I do get the sarcasm.

 

 

 

 

 

11 hours ago, marioc said:

This is pure madness!!
You go to hospital for a diarrhoea and you end up with your fingers and toes amputated.... bloody hell!!!!
 

What part of " she developed sepsis don't you understand? "

 

 

 

 

3 hours ago, rwill said:

It looks like they waited way to long to get help.  

It looks like they didn't have the experienced doctors to hand nor the people who had the necessary  authority in such  medical matters to make decisions due to the Songkran holidays

 

 

 

 

A severe jolt to Thailand's reputation as The Hub of Medical Tourism?

I wonder if this was all caused by the woman's diet. Thais eat far too much sodium, such as from instant noodles (Ma Ma, etc.).
"Eating too much sodium blamed for high rate of kidney disease in Thailand. About 17.6% of the Thai population, or eight million people, are suffering from chronic kidney disease, of which 200,000 are in the final stages. These figures are increasing by an average of 7,800 a year, according to Professor Dr. ..."

My wife had a appendectomy earlier this year. The surgeon left the incision open for a week with a tube inserted.

 

When I asked him about this, he explained that it was because of the risk of infection that they left it open so that they could drain any fluid and to do an internal inspection to make sure there was nothing nasty going on inside. 

 

She made a full recovery so fair dos. It seems that he knew his stuff.

26 minutes ago, renaissanc said:

I wonder if this was all caused by the woman's diet. Thais eat far too much sodium, such as from instant noodles (Ma Ma, etc.).
"Eating too much sodium blamed for high rate of kidney disease in Thailand. About 17.6% of the Thai population, or eight million people, are suffering from chronic kidney disease, of which 200,000 are in the final stages. These figures are increasing by an average of 7,800 a year, according to Professor Dr. ..."

Source for this nonsense?

13 hours ago, marioc said:

This is pure madness!!
You go to hospital for a diarrhoea and you end up with your fingers and toes amputated.... bloody hell!!!!
 

Typical surtitle reader comment

1 hour ago, redwood1 said:

So is her diarrhea better?

Not in the best possible taste - I'm sure her husband would be able to explain the prognosis quite eloquently to you!

13 hours ago, GroveHillWanderer said:

Her initial outward symptoms may only have been diarrhoea but at the hospital she was found to be suffering from kidney failure and in the midst of a hypotensive crisis.

 

She then needed dialysis so that means she had only 10 - 15% of her kidney function left.

 

This does not sound like just a simple case of mild food poisoning and "the runs." She was having serious, serious kidney problems.

and the cure for that is to amputate toes and fingers...........right. 

10 minutes ago, Jackbenimble said:

and the cure for that is to amputate toes and fingers...........right. 

Look at the photo. Black fingers and toes means one option