We got a call from my sister in law yesterday evening that her 5 year old son had tried to pick up his 2 week old brother and accidentally dropped him on a carpeted floor.
She took him to the ER to make sure there was absolutely nothing wrong with him. By looking at him, he was acting as a 2 week old should. They did a catscan which is common in head trauma cases. We hear back that the baby has a skull fracture and is bleeding a bit. They are going to send him by ambulance to a neighboring cities Childrens hospital.
Well by this time, Mom is freakin'...thinking her baby is about to die and they wouldn't even let her ride in the ambulance with her son because of her anxiety levels.
Mom, Dad, and Grandma follow the ambulance and arrive at the Childrens hospital. They give the baby another catscan with more advanced machines ...they attending Dr. comes back out and says there is NO fracture, No bleeding. .Baby is fine.
How could a hospital be so wrong in their diagnosis?
2007-11-09 01:46:00 · 12 answers · asked by Pixie Dust 3 in Health ➔ General Health Care ➔ Injuries
Better to have a diagnosis and get sent to a bigger better hospital, only to find that all is well, than to be sent home only to find later that something really was wrong after all and now the baby will be affected long-term.
Be relieved that nothing is really wrong! You could put it down to whoever was praying really hard for that baby during his ambulance ride - stranger things have happened!
2007-11-09 01:57:32 · answer #1 · answered by Cathy T 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋
I find that lots of hospitals don't know what they are doing. I got really sick four years ago and went to the local hospital. They decided my gall bladder needed to come out. There was nothing wrong with the gall bladder. Then, they decided I was just plain crazy and tried to put me in the looney bin. My son took me from NC to a real hospital in Chicago where I was diagnosed with secondary progressive multiple sclerosis. Not long ago, I was having severe abdominal cramping. They took out my appendix. There was nothing wrong with my appendix. Turns out I had a bad ulcer. Hospitals and doctors are not what they used to be. I am scared to death to see a doctor anymore. They just do what they want to do without so much as a worry of whether they are right or not.
2007-11-09 01:55:37 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
That sort of this is hard to mistake by reading a cat scan, perhaps the technician was inexperienced or just plain dumb. That's really ridiculous, and I'm sorry.
It happens all the time though... my friend was told that she had an inoperable tumor on her lung and was hospitalized, until someone called to confirm - they had read the wrong xray. Just be incredibly angry at stupid people in important places, and thankful that the baby is ok.
2007-11-09 03:58:52 · answer #3 · answered by smileychild 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
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2016-09-28 21:36:29 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Be thankful! Hospitals will ALWAYS tend to err on the side of caution when it comes to children! If there HAD been something wrong and nobody had caught it, what would you be saying then?
2007-11-09 17:53:07 · answer #5 · answered by nightynightnurse 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It depends on who read the initial CT scan and what they saw on the initial scan. I would not judge the first hospital until I talked to the doc that read the scan and asked him WHAT it was he saw that made him diagnose a fracture and bleed.
2007-11-09 01:52:31 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
It is always better to error in the side of caution..It would have been worse if it had been the other way around! I would rather have my child tested for the worst, than be sent on home.
2007-11-09 03:10:31 · answer #7 · answered by PROBLEM 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
actually, it is sorta like the crooked corrupt police county i live in....Corruption everywhere. And no matter where you look, people are people.
When i lived in Baton Rouge, my X had put me in a comatose stage, smashing me and i wouldnt , couldnt respond to anyone, but i knew what was going on, i just couldnt respond or move.....they took me in for a catskan and this guy physically /sexually abused me!! Later, when i tried to tell the hospital staff this, they refused to believe me saying i was in a coma. Even though i told them EVERY aspect of every thing he did, every machine he used, every move he made, every click of every button, etc....and the judge says, yes? how else would she know this??
So........Yeah, there is crooked crap going on EVERYWHERE, every proffession
Right now i dont trust the court system because of what my X has done to me, but that doesnt mean there arent good cops...i just havent seen any good ones lately..
2007-11-09 02:18:11 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
I don't know. Maybe the first hospital just didn't have the technological capabilities of the children's hospital. But aren't you glad that they had the foresight to refer him?
2007-11-09 01:56:40 · answer #9 · answered by troymariner 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Short staffed, exhausted doctors, inexperienced tech reading the labs.
2007-11-09 01:49:11 · answer #10 · answered by sahel578 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋