A nurse killed a woman by injecting an antacid by mistake

On Wednesday, March 13, Amanda de Jesús Duque Ramírez entered the Marco Fidel Suárez Hospital of the municipality of Bello, in the department of Antioquia, to process the high sugar levels presented. It ended in a cardiac arrest that cost the life. All, apparently, by a novice error of a nurse in practice.

The 61-year-old woman was taken to the health center by her children and her husband because she had leg inflammation and complications due to water retention due to her condition. a high sugar content, according to CM & News. This was not the first time they were going to this hospital.

"Her legs were swollen and one of them was wearing her and with medications she was deflating her, we took her on Wednesday at noon and at 9 pm they took care of her. 39 she, "she told the newspaper. The weatherDiego Alexánder Bedoya Duque, son of the victim. The attention was effective for several days, until Saturday, March 16, which was to be unloaded.

"When they were going to send her away, the doctor said that she had good blood pressure, good vital signs, that her sugar was good, but that she had cramps (burns). stomach), so the doctor prescribed a medicine for him. "continued his story of Bedoya. Her mother was prescribed an aluminum-magnesium antacid, usually given orally.

After the order, uAn auxiliary nurse entered the room where Duque was with his family and injected him with a medicine of which they had no reference at the time. Soon the woman changed the color of her skin and fainted, according to the wife's husband, aged 68, who was instead at that time.

Everything was in minutes. The children of Duque were present when they tried to revive her, until the medical team decided to send her to the more complex hospital of La María, where she eventually died as a result of a cardiorespiratory arrest.

The drug was delivered to the patient at Marco Fidel Suárez Hospital.

"Before his arrival at La María, he had already made two cardiorespiratory arrests and he is in very bad condition," said Teleantioquia Misael Cadavid, the director of the hospital where the woman died. The doctor confirmed that He was injected intravenously with an antacid called Mylanta of 30 centimeters.

This was discovered because the woman's husband, who was with her in the room at the time of the injection, took the precaution of keeping the syringe she had used, which still contained some substance. The death occurred on Monday, March 18 due to an error in the medical procedure, reported by relatives of Duque in front of the prosecutor's office.

"Legal Medicine did lift the body, because it was not a natural death … My mother left five children and several grandchildren, we are still in shock, we do not want that to happen We do not explain what happened., He spoke, he smiled … We are devastated, "said Bedoya. The weather.