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How could this happen?

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How? because staff aren't trained properly. That's the short of it - and sadly it's not the only case.

Friend of mine admitted with severe DKA caused by a sudden unrelated illness was put on a sliding scale, during the night her BG was checked by a junior and found to be 2-point something and what did they do? absolutely nothing because "they didn't like to wake her" ...... Her daughter happened to be a newly-qualified Dr and heads didn't roll - but daughter made it 100% clear at the highest level in the hospital and on the ward that if they let her mother die, then heads most certainly would.

It's probably the thin end of the wedge, this. There are probably just as many people dying of other things and events which just shouldn't happen.
 
Simply awful :( I had a check missed when I was in hospital and dropped to 2.1 when I was checked over an hour late - this was the first time I had hypoed and the nurse was asking ME what to do about it! In the end I competely overtreated and ended up in the high 20s. Nowhere near as serious obviously, but indicative of how a minor error can be highly dangerous.
 
knew i shouldnt have read that im having my baby there in sept.
that is shocking though
 
One of my friends is training to be a nurse. SHe keeps comming to me for advice about diabetes because she says the information she is getting seems so inadequate. Happily she can look in here too and is even thinking about registering so she can sak questions if she needs to.
 
My DSN did a campaign at her hospital and now all the wards have a hypo kit (not a 'Hypokit' LOL) and have been trained how to use it.

Sadly her hosp isn't the one I'd get carted off to ......
 
when I had my eye operations theY tested the
BG at 8am but didn't bother checking again despite me not having the operation until three hours later. When I was in the recovery room after one of the ops I said that my BG felt low and could they test........they said that I would have to wait until I was back on the ward😱
Fortunately it wasn't low
 
That is scary :(
 
trophywench said:
My DSN did a campaign at her hospital and now all the wards have a hypo kit (not a 'Hypokit' LOL) and have been trained how to use it.
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My DNP told me the same thing. They now have an orange box with all the hypo supplies you could need in it. It also has a colour coded set of instructions for what to do for various degrees of hypos from mild to severe. This is kept on the crash cart so no-one can say they don't know where it's kept as EVERYONE knows where the crash cart is.

They've also brought in an alert sticker which is a bright colour and put on the front of a diabetic patients records so it is blindingly obvious to anyone looking at it.

These too were brought in fairly recently and was no doubt because of failings to provide proper care for diabetic patients. Hopefully other hospitals will follow suit and it will become standard across the board.
 
This was in the News section recently, showing the huge shortfall in properly trained staff given the high number of people with diabetes in hospitals:

http://www.diabetessupport.co.uk/boards/showthread.php?t=18931

Some key numbers:

Diabetes inpatient specialist input is low
? 31.0% of sites had no inpatient diabetes specialist nurses
? 29.8% of sites had no inpatient dietetic provision for people with diabetes
? 26.8% of sites had no inpatient podiatry service for people with diabetes
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:(
 
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