Yet another reason not to trust hospitals:
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Frankly, I’d be surprised if fires never happened in hospitals. Bring chemicals and sparks together, and it’s bound to happen eventually. (I’m assuming some kind of wound cauterizer or something similar was involved.) You have a better chance of burning in your home or car.
Boy, you talk about your “crash and burn”…
Something similar happened to one of my med school roommates’ patients. A guy was in 3rd degree heart block, with iffy blood pressure. They were prepping him for a stat pacemaker placement and had just wiped the chest off with alcohol when he went into Ventricular fibrillation. Of course they reached for the defibrillator, shocked him, and set him on fire.
He didn’t make it either.
Now that’s bad heartburn.
Good thing they aren’t still using ether for anaesthesia.
Damn, I was hoping this was gonna be spontaneous combustion.
That rumbling you hear out on the west coast has nothing to do with the San Andreas fault…it’s a herd of trial lawyers charging toward Seattle looking to find fault.
Dayum! I would hate to have to chart on that!
I thought it would be a build up of static electricity causing a spark etc.
Dayum.
I like the “clarification” made by the admin rep–heart failure, not burns were the cause of death.
Well, I feel better knowing that, don’t you?