Hospital Kills Elder Man After Unknowingly Injecting Wrong Blood Type

The 62 year-old man’s relatives complained after they had brought him to cure his back injury. After surgery, he blacked-out and was sent to the nearest city hospital. Autopsy suggest that the wrong blood type was given to him.

CHIANGMAI – June 15, 2013 [PDN]: Journalist received a complaint from the relatives of 62 year-old Intha, who went to cure his aching back, but after surgery, the hospital have reportedly given him the wrong blood type which made him pass out, shock and die.

Relatives of Mr.Intha revealed that on June 3, he felt a sudden back pain, which made them send him to a local hospital in Chiangmai. Doctor then x-rayed and diagnosed him, it was found that the main cause of his back pain was his herniated disc. The doctor told Mr. Intha’s relatives that he had to have an immediate surgery.

After the surgery, Mr. Intha had to sleep at the hospital to recover. During surgery he lost a lot of blood, but the hospital didn’t have enough blood, which made the nurse add or inject a B blood type to Mr. Intha’s body,

Full story:http://www.pattayadailynews.com/en/2013/06/16/hospital-kills-elder-man-after-unknowingly-injecting-wrong-blood-type/

--PATTAYA DAILY NEWS 2013-06-16

I am surprised this made it to the news. Usually hospital errors are never publicly announced or acknowledged.

So he was type O(neg?) and the nurse gave him type B??

Perhaps she thought that because "O-" is universal, they could put any type IN to the guy?

Hmmm... I've become that which I usually try to avoid... a tv sleuth... but the mind just boggles...

Scary thought.

Always have someone or something with you stating your blood type.

The article didn't mention the Rh factor of the blood -- just said the patient had type O and type B was injected. If they he was O+ and B+ was injected, wouldn't this have been OK?

Also, it's too bad the article doesn't mention the hospital where this happened. Would be good to know.

As expected, the hospital killed someone and not a mention of their name.

Had the guy killed someone at the hospital, his name, photo and ID would be plastered across every media outlet in the country.

Sounds fair.

As expected, the hospital killed someone and not a mention of their name.

Had the guy killed someone at the hospital, his name, photo and ID would be plastered across every media outlet in the country.

Sounds fair.

As was reported somewhere, I can't remember where at the moment, the Hospital was in Fang.

I am surprised this made it to the news. Usually hospital errors are never publicly announced or acknowledged.

That is not especially true. These types of incidents all over Thailand are reported on the Thai news daily. There has been a number of reported incidents of negligence in C.M. recently, including a teenage girl who was so self-conscious of being overweight that she went to a clinic at C.M. Gate to have liposuction. The surgeon (an older guy) killed her on the table. They showed the guy, gave his name, etc., showed him trying to get out the back door to avoid her parents, etc.

The article didn't mention the Rh factor of the blood -- just said the patient had type O and type B was injected. If they he was O+ and B+ was injected, wouldn't this have been OK?

No. A person with type O blood can never receive anything but type O.

What is perhaps confusing you is that type O blood can be given to a person of any blood. O is the "universal donor". The "universal recipient" is type AB.

It is beyond possibility that he was knowingly given type B blood because there was no type O available. Everyone, from nurses to doctors to lab techs to first year students of same knows better, and it is an automatic death sentence for the patient. Safer to remain untransfused.

Furthermore, before blood is transfused a test called a "Crossmatch" is done wherein the patient's blood is mixed with the blood planned for transfusion and observed under the microscope to make sure there is compatibility as sometimes even the same blood type may cause a problem due to presence of substances the patient is sensitive to.

Must have been either a blood bank mix-up (blood mislabelled) or nursing error (blood intended for one patient mistakenly given to another).

A poorly reported and appallingly written summary of a news story from a newspaper hundreds of kilometers away from the apparent accident which seems chiefly to have aroused TV's Thai bashers as well as some cheap speculation. Doesn't even appear it has a valid link to the newspaper! And the thread header is a real doozy! Belongs as a headline in your favorite cheap yellow press, perhaps the Sun or National Enquirer.