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Minutes of the late composer John Cage’s piece “As Slow as Possible,” which a church in Halberstadt, Germany, has agreed to play once through in its entirety on its organ...
...hospital's once gleaming reputation has taken a beating. How could its surgeons have erred so egregiously? Fulkerson says the procedures that should prevent such errors broke down twice: when the surgeon, Dr. James Jaggers, instead of checking, assumed that the blood type of the donated organs matched Jesica's and when he failed to verbally confirm that assumption with Carolina Donor Services, the organ-donor agency. "Jesica's case has clearly sent a warning to transplant centers," says Dr. David Yuh, a transplant surgeon at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Md., where the transplant staff is double-checking...
Seventeen-year-old Jesica Santillan was supposed to be one of the lucky ones. After years of living in pain brought on by her failing organs, the teenager finally matched with a heart-lung donor and was admitted to Duke University Medical Center in early February for a double-organ transplant. Thursday morning, after her body rejected the first set of new organs mistakenly implanted with the wrong blood type, Santillan lies in her hospital bed fighting for her life after a second implant procedure. Early reports indicate the second transplant has been successful; Jesica is given a 50 percent...
...Duke spokesman Richard Puff says the medical center accepts full responsibility for the "tragic" mistake and has already implemented new safety procedures - including a triple-layer system to check blood type matching - to ensure this kind of error will never happen again. The hospital, which performed its first organ transplant in 1965 and now performs the most lung transplants in the country, says there has never been a donor mix-up at the facility before. According to Puff, the investigation is ongoing, and there is no word when the hospital will release new findings on the cause of the error...
...deaths in hospitals from medical errors - an astonishingly high number (more than the number of deaths from breast cancer, car accidents or AIDS) that's generally given little media attention. Assuming, however, that we are talking about transplants, the prognosis is more promising. According to the United Network of Organ Sharing (UNOS), 23,000 transplants were performed last year alone. And in the history of transplantation, there are only two cases of dangerous blood type mismatches on record since transplantation began (some blood types can be intermingled with few or no consequences...