To Those Who Say 'spelling Does Not Matter'

[EDDIE51]

http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/feb/02/irmgard-cooper-bleeds-to-death-surgery-spelling-error-delays-blood-supply
An unusual case I agree, but the principle is sound.

[Mamyalynne]

Spelling error yes, combined with a lack of communication which in my opinion is one of the major causes for delays and errors in our healthcare system.

Very sad for this family to have this added to their grief.

[Sqad]

To me....this has little to do with spelling.
Are we to understand that in a Cardiothoracic unit in the NHS, there was no O neg blood ( Universal donor) for a patient bleeding from an Aortic aneurysm?

I hope the husband will sue the hospital.

[jno]

I agree with mamya, it's more than just spelling. If I look up Irngard, Google is generally alert to ask me if I really meant Irmgard. Hospital search functions ought to have a similar amount of fuzzy logic, and if they haven't, staff should have.

[-Talbot-]

I agree with the 3 previous posts.

[EDDIE51]

I agree with the posts so far. But just today I went for a heart scan. At every turn I was asked for my full name and date of birth, 5 times in all !
I commented to the technician that ''I have nor suddenly been replaced by my identical twin!''
He apologised but said, ''yes, but you would be surprised how many people there are with identical or almost identical names.'' We can't afford to get it wrong! we have to check over and over''
Just imagine the row if this had gone the other way and this woman had died due to being given the wrong blood due to a name mix up!

[wired]

This is a very sad incident for the family, when my elderly father was discharged from hospital I was given his notes which stated that he had weak heart mussels, the local nurse said that at least his cockles are ok.amusing but not really funny.

[Peter Pedant]

ed this is not spelling at all

if you really want to bore your socks off try this

http://www.shotuk.org/wp-content/uploads/summary-20141.pdf

SHOT stands for serious hazards of transfusion.
Even I find these reports jesus boring

And if the blood in the bag does not match the names on the notes
there is no agony of " shall I give it or not? "
the standing rules are not to - and have been that for between ten and twenty years

Blood is not stored in operating theatres ( quality control issues - it goes off ) and O neg isnt on tap either. Group specific blood is probably useful here and if someone bleated down the phone

' o we have screwed up the labelling o and we have also started the operation even tho we knew there is no blood

In view of the labeling error and screwing around- I probably WOULD demand a fresh specimen of blood....on the grounds that you couldnt be sure that anything previously submitted in the patients name or near it was in fact from the patient

as you can read - I dont really think this is a transcription error


one letter error is not enough
http://pixar.wikia.com/wiki/Mia_and_Tia
here is a link to Tia and Zia X who were twin child actresses in an American sitcom
and number errors in hospital number are not tolerated either
as twins were given consecutive hospital numbers
they arent now after a series of well- SHOTs actually

There are rules and one has to follow them
not only when the month has an 'r' in it

as for starting an operation where you know you will need blood and you know there isnt any
jesus - which hospital was that ?

[Mamyalynne]

Northwick Park hospital in Harrow, north-west London

[Peter Pedant]

oops used to work there - 1978

The paed used to have a bicycle to pedal over from the childrens ward to the obstetric ward when needed