Man left with rotting leg after hospital 'loses' him
Published: 13 Oct 12 09:53 CET | Print version
Updated: 13 Oct 12 11:25 CET
Online: http://www.thelocal.se/43794/20121013/
A 21-year-old Swedish man fears that he will be unable to walk unaided again after Linköping University Hospital lost track of him, leading to a delay in the treatment of a routine foot fracture.
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Six weeks and eight operations later Bruhne was however still in hospital, according to a report by Sveriges Television Östnytt.
The extended hospital stay was made necessary after staff at the hospital lost track of him as he was moved across several wards.
The subsequent delay in his treatment meant that the muscles surrounding the broken bone began to wither and rot.
Once the hospital had finally located him, Bruhne underwent an emergency operation and three muscles were removed from his bone. He has since undergone a further seven operations to address the injury and ensuing complications.
The 21-year-old expressed concern that he would be unable to make a full recovery from his injury.
"Perhaps I will never be able to walk again. then I think about the sports. That I will never be able to play football or inner-bandy," he said to SVT.
"It is awful that this type of thing has to happen just to save money."
The incident has been reported to the National Board of Health and Welfare (Socialstyrelsen) in accordance with Sweden's Lex-Maria laws, the informal name for regulations governing the reporting of injuries and incidents in the healthcare system.
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He is getting FREE health care ...
No one forced him to go skateboarding or use this hospital.
Oops edit : Just realized that the hospital isn't free since it heavily subsidized through some of the highest taxes in the world. And even then requires a admittance fee and he then has to pay medical costs etc. Good to see so much value and choice.
It seems likely that the hospital put his foot in a cast to allow for the swelling to go down before performing definitive surgery to fix the fracture. They "lost" him means that they never called him back for surgery. A preliminary cast is totally inadequate to treat a displaced ankle fracture.
A more ominous possibility is that while waiting for the hospital to get in touch with him he developed a compartment syndrome from excessive swelling. That would explain the muscle loss and need for multiple surgeries.
Ugly no matter how you look at it.
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The moral of this story, and any other in whatever country...is shout like hell, get attention and don't, don't let them do anything to you they have not fully explained to you. Nobody knows your body better than you do.