| News From Transplant Week of Feb. 17, 2002 / Vol. 3 No. 7 |
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Hospital Mixup Causes Death of Youth Awaiting Heart Transplant |
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A 19-year-old youth awaiting a heart transplant at OSF St. Francis Medical Center in Peoria, Illinois, died because he was incorrectly connected to a heart assist machine, according to a coroner's jury. Terrance T. McKnight, who was suffering from congestive heart failure, was connected to one machine but it began to make a noise. So an unknown staff member switched him to a different machine but hooked the color-coded leads up backward causing the death, according to coroner Dan Heinz. Chris Lofgren,
a spokesperson for the medical center, said an internal investigation
is underway and the hospital has "made changes so it doesn't
happen again." Other
sources: AP |
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