No, it sounds to me like they were simply incompetent and then tried to cover their asteroids. It happens all the time. They screwed up and lost the blood. Then they were caught with their pants down and convinced everyone it was no big deal and proceeded anyway. They took a chance and they lost bigly.

Hospitals are always looking at the bottom line. They have to in order to stay in business. Therefore, when a fairly expensive procedure is slated and all the players are in place and ready to proceed, they are reluctant to pull the plug and reset - which is exactly what they should have done. As a matter of convenience for the hospital and the providers, the decision was made to use the hospitals generic blood supply. What proceeded from that mistake was the coverup for their blunder. Unfortunately for this family, it cost the life of their child.

This is not only the hospitals fault, but it is also the fault of every provider involved that should have stopped the procedure. Speaking from experience, money and convenience are usually the driving factors for many of these providers that overrule safety and simply doing the right thing. They should have seen that this case had lawsuit written all over it, and in order to protect not only the life of this child and their own professional integrity, they should have stopped the procedure. Being more concerned about rescheduling and receiving the hospitals wrath prompted them to move forward. This is their bad and the buck stops with them. They were the ones ultimately responsible because it was within their power to stop this - and they didn't.

No, it sounds to me like they were simply incompetent and then tried to cover their asteroids. It happens all the time. They screwed up and lost the blood. Then they were caught with their pants down and convinced everyone it was no big deal and proceeded anyway. They took a chance and they lost bigly.

Hospitals are always looking at the bottom line. They have to in order to stay in business. Therefore, when a fairly expensive procedure is slated and all the players are in place and ready to proceed, they are reluctant to pull the plug and reset - which is exactly what they should have done. As a matter of convenience for the hospital and the providers, the decision was made to use the hospitals generic blood supply. What proceeded from that mistake was the coverup for their blunder. Unfortunately for this family, it cost the life of their child.

This is not only the hospitals fault, but it is also the fault of every provider involved that should have stopped the procedure. Speaking from experience, money and convenience are usually the driving factors for many of these providers that overrule safety and simply doing the right thing. They should have seen that this case had lawsuit written all over it and in order to protect not only the life of this child and their own professional integrity, they should have stopped the procedure. Being more concerned about rescheduling and receiving the hospitals wrath prompted them to move forward. This is their bad and the buck stops with them. They were the ones ultimately responsible because it was within their power to stop this - and they didn't.