La morte di Toddler per avvelenamento da fentanil potrebbe accadere “ancora e ancora”
https://www.irishexaminer.com/news/arid-41668277.html
di PoppedCork
La morte di Toddler per avvelenamento da fentanil potrebbe accadere “ancora e ancora”
https://www.irishexaminer.com/news/arid-41668277.html
di PoppedCork
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That is a heartbreaking read.
What did they think was in the patch? It was being administered for pain relief. How did they not know what they were applying? This just doesn’t make sense.
The second question is if they know this patch is likely to fall off, how was the child able to get it in his mouth for long enough to get 20 times the adult daily dose and not one adult know to get him to the hospital?
This is awfully sad and my heart goes out to the family.
christ i read the headline and thought it happened in america
Surely the uncle knew what was in the patch and should have had the sense to keep it away from a toddler? This is obviously tragic but people need to develop some common sense.
I find it hard to believe that the palliative care team didn’t explain that the patches contained a strong opioid.
It’s a tragic case, but unfortunately the blame lies with the uncle for not being more mindful of his medication. If he left his morphine pills lying open and the child ate them it wouldn’t exactly be fair to blame the hospice..
This can go for any patch medications a child could easily get one stuck to them or ingest. Maybe needs to be a keep out of reach of children warning, people may be more lax with patches more so than tablets. It may have been possible the patches were on the floor where the child played especially if they were falling off
Surely in households where Fentanyl is prescribed Naloxone to be kept for cases of overdose?
If the facts are as described in the article and no one was made aware that this patient was being prescribed Fentanyl or given stark warnings around how dangerous that drug is, then no doubt the prescriber was negligible.
Very sad for the family, poor little mite.
And that’s because of moron like this that terminal ill people are not getting fentanyl patches at home.
My husband had to go an hospice to get fentanyl because they wouldn’t give him fentanyl patches to be able to stay home longer.
They are the reasons why 100s of dying people are not receiving adequate care at home, because they couldn’t educate themselves on what drugs were administered and keeping an eye on their toddler.
While I’m sorry a toddler died, I’m fuming that it’s depriving other families to have their dying loved one at home because they didn’t try to know better.
My kids have seen their dad fighting cancer for 6 years, we had very potent drugs at home and from the start they were educated that under no circumstances they were to touch daddy drugs EVER ! And they were younger than this poor kid !
This doesn’t happen, poor child had several hours exposure.
I feel like I’m alone in this opinion but I can totally understand how this could have happened.
Terminally ill man (feeling v v v sick) is so sweaty that his painkilling patches constantly fall off. He is being cared for in the family home which is now presumably cluttered with medical type stuff.
He has a skin infection meaning his medication has been switched from an injection to a patch (presumably a recent thing).
All it would take is for the patch to fall off and the child to step on it with his bare foot.
This seems like a terrible tragedy and the hospice saying the man is “responsible for his own medications” while true technically might not reflect the real world