3-year-old Quang Ngai boy died suspected of choking on nuts: The family made a big deal, the hospital spoke up

According to Thanh Nien newspaper, on the evening of January 27, Mr. Tran Van Chi (33 years old, residing in village 3, Nghia Dung commune, Quang Ngai city) said that at about 20:00 on January 26, T.D. L (3 years old, Chi's son) played with 4 other children, some of them took out pumpkin seeds to eat.

L. then coughed and had difficulty breathing, so the children in the group informed him and said that L. ate pumpkin seeds and choked.

L. had difficulty breathing and vomited, so he and his wife took him to Quang Ngai Obstetrics and Children's Hospital for emergency treatment.

The above source quoted Mr. Chi as saying that when he went to the emergency room, the family actively informed the doctors that L. had choked on pumpkin seeds. Then a young doctor came in, examined his throat with medical equipment and told the family it was nothing.

When the doctors at Quang Ngai Obstetrics and Gynecology Hospital took turns examining but could not find the disease for L., Mr. Chi suggested taking the child to Da Nang Hospital for examination and treatment, but the doctor continued to tell him. family is no problem.

Then, a respiratory doctor came to examine, the family was told by this person that L. had respiratory disease, asthma, not a foreign object.

The doctor then moved L. to the 5th floor for treatment. Here, the doctors and nurses distributed medicine and instructed the family to give him aerosol breathing. When breathing aerosols, L.'s health is better.

After lying down for about 15 minutes, L. continued to vomit all over his body, so Chi's wife went to the hospital's toilet to get water to wash her child, but at this time there was no hot water in the toilet.

It was cold at night, and he and his wife were afraid that their child would catch a cold. At this time, the nurse told him to go down to the hospital to check in, because he didn't have a health insurance card, so he couldn't do the procedure.

While his son needed hot water to wash his body and change clothes, plus the hospital needed a health insurance card for admission, at about 12 o'clock on the same day, he and his wife decided to take the child home to Wash and change your child's clothes, and look for his health insurance card.

Around 4:00 am on January 27, Chi and his wife hired a taxi to take L. back to Quang Ngai Obstetrics and Children's Hospital. As soon as he entered the hospital gate, L. had hiccups and was taken straight to the emergency room.

"Then my baby was urgently transferred to the Intensive Care Unit, at this time the doctors and nurses carried out sputum suction and oxygen for breathing. But about 20 minutes later, the doctor announced that my son had passed away.

I see that the doctors and nurses at Quang Ngai Obstetrics and Children's Hospital were very careless at first, so my child was like this, now my child is no longer there. I want an apology from the doctors and family. my family", Youth quoted Mr. Chi.

According to VNExpress, doctor Nguyen Dinh Tuyen, Director of the Hospital for Obstetrics and Gynecology in Quang Ngai province, said that on the afternoon of January 27, the hospital had established a professional council to analyze the process of receiving, treating and caring for patients. A three-year-old patient recently passed away.

Accordingly, right after receiving the patient, the doctors and nurses on duty took full medical history, ordered X-ray films of the lungs and cervical spine, tests, and otolaryngoscopy.

The baby was diagnosed with acute croup, needing differential diagnosis of airway foreign body.

After the boy was admitted to the pediatric respiratory department, the doctor on duty prescribed aerosol breathing, treatment with antibiotics and anti-inflammatory drugs. After that, the baby is awake, pink lips, less wheezing. Nurses care, monitor and guide family members to actively warm the baby.

Before the doctor was denounced by his family for "irresponsibility", the Professional Council said that at more than 23h on the 5th day of the Lunar New Year, the nurse from the Pediatric Respiratory Department came to take care of the patient but there was no patient in the ward, "the family member died on their own. get out of the hospital".

According to the expert panel, by 4:00 am on January 27, when the patient was brought back to the hospital, the neck pulse could not be caught, the whole body was pale, the chest did not move, the pupils were dilated, the abdomen was distended, and the breathing stopped. Unexplained out-of-hospital cardiac arrest.

At this time, the duty team took the baby to the Intensive Care Unit - Anti-poison for emergency and active resuscitation, but the child did not survive.

The expert panel concluded that the pediatric patient was directly welcomed, examined, diagnosed and assigned to do paraclinical tests in full, timely and in accordance with professional technical procedures.

The medical staff of the shift coordinated to actively treat and resuscitate the patient, but unfortunately, the family members voluntarily took the patient out of the hospital, so they did not monitor, intervene, and give first aid in time.

"There is no way that the hospital requires family members to show their insurance card to receive treatment as some information on social networks is spreading.

With emergency cases, the hospital always prioritizes handling according to professional procedures to ensure the safety of patients' lives. Administrative procedures will be carried out later," the source quoted doctor Nguyen Dinh Tuyen as saying.

According to the same source, after the incident, the Quang Ngai Provincial Police were present, collecting medical records, conducting initial investigation, but family members refused to examine and take them home to take care of the aftermath.

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