larrydoane
New Member
I live in Indiana. In march my father passed away. He went to the hospital, and was quickly diagnosed with something like colonic diaphragm disease. It's a disease where you get a hole in your colon and it fills your body with bacteria, and pretty much poisons the body. His heart kept stopping, but they would bring him back. He was quickly put on a respirator. After a day he became very disoriented, and kept trying to leave, so they tied him to the bed. A day later he got out of the restraints and pulled his respirator tube out. He was breathing fine on his own, so they decided to keep it out. Then his vital signs went down, so they decided they were going to put the respirator back in, so they made us leave the room. We were in the waiting room when we heard them call a code 99. The doctor came out later, and told us that they went to put the respirator tube back in, but they never realized when he pulled his tube out that part of the tube was still in his throat, and when they went to put the other one in it got lodged in his throat cutting off his air supply. They waited 13 minutes to trake him. They told us he had a high chance of being brain dead. The next night a neurologist ran a brain test that said he was 99.9% brain dead. We all knew he didn't want to live on life support, so we took him off, and he died. It angers me that he died from something that had nothing to do with his medical problem. I also don't understand why they waited so long to trake him. Is that malpractice?
