Four employees at the Talihina Oklahoma Department of Veterans Affairs center have resigned after a patient was found with maggots in his wound shortly before he died.
Talihina director Myles Deering confirmed the maggots didn’t enter the wound after the patient died on Oct. 3, but rather were present while the patient was still alive.
However, Deering stressed that the patient did not die from the maggots themselves.
“He did not succumb as a result of the parasites,” Deering said, Tulsa World reports. “He succumbed as a result of the sepsis.”
Deering also serves as secretary of the Oklahoma Department of Veterans Affairs, which is separate from the federal Department of Veterans Affairs.
The 73-year-old veteran, Owen Reese Peterson, initially came to the medical center with an infection, but then ended up with sepsis, to which he later succumbed.
Four staff members at the facility have resigned: a physician’s assistant and three nurses.
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ReplyDeleteI am a retired nurse, this is an abomination! That PA and those nurses should be brought up on charges and imprisoned for the rest of their lives! There is no excuse for him to be in that condition, they were negligent, pure and simple. With extreme minimum supplies they should have been able to keep the Vet from developing sepsis.
ReplyDeleteUnfuriating.
DeleteIt seems like somebody would have noticed blow flies. They
ReplyDeleteare the first to come to lay their eggs on rotting flesh.
An amputee came into the facility I was working and I noticed
the blow flies in the pts. room.
Thanks and amazing.
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