Report details mistakes that cost airman legs

[unhappycamper]

Senior Airman Colton Read


Report details mistakes that cost airman legs
By Michelle Tan - Staff writer
Posted : Thursday Mar 18, 2010 17:28:34 EDT

Airman 1st Class Colton Read was in the intensive care unit, unconscious. Jessica Read was on the telephone with a master sergeant from her husband’s unit. She was so upset the senior NCO could barely make out what she was saying.

It had something to do with Read’s gallbladder operation. Something had gone horribly wrong, Jessica Read managed to say.

~snip~

Read had lost almost two-thirds of his blood and his legs were blue. At least a dozen doctors and nurses crowded around him.

He received ultrasounds and an angiogram. He was moved from the intensive care unit to a radiology suite, then back to the ICU.

Hours went by before Read was transferred to the University of California-Davis Medical Center, some 40 miles north. There, doctors amputated his legs to save his life.


Rest of article at: http://www.airforcetimes.com/news/2010/03/airforce_read_report_031810w/

[Tippy]

1. Something in that Operating Room went wrong and Military is covering it up...

[newfie11]

3. They can't cover up much

It is all there. Holy cow what a bunch of screw ups!

Reminds me of the surgeon that was operating years ago at a VA hospital in the east coast.
Many problems and fatalities. He was legally blind.

[newfie11]

2. OMG!!!!!!!

[Lost4words]

4. So if he didnt agree to the elective surgery they WOULD NOT deploy him?

this is an OMG story, why would anybody join the military today?

[SidDithers]

5. Big chain of errors and bad judgement detailed in that article...

What a sad story.

Thanks for posting.

Sid