pandorea Posted June 13, 2009 Report Share Posted June 13, 2009 From BBC News : updated at 18:42 GMT, Saturday, 13 June 2009 19:42 UK A couple has spoken of their shock after an IVF clinic mix-up led to their last embryo being wrongly implanted into another patient. They were further angered when it emerged the other woman was given the morning-after pill. The couple from Bridgend won their case for damages after the mistake at Cardiff's University Hospital of Wales. Cardiff and Vale NHS Trust apologised "unreservedly" for the error and said it had improved checking procedures. The trust admitted gross failures in care and has also agreed to pay an undisclosed settlement to the couple. hattered The couple, who have not been named, discovered the mix-up when they attended the clinic for the implantation of their last remaining viable embryo in December 2007. It later emerged that the patient who had wrongly been given their embryo had been given the morning after pill when the mistake was spotted almost immediately. This resulted in the procedure being terminated. "In less than 10 seconds our wonderful world was shattered when the senior embryologist stood in front of us and said, 'I'm very sorry to tell you, but there's been an accident in the lab. Your embryo has been destroyed'," the woman told the Mail on Sunday. She added: "We were both rooted to our seats. We were stunned and trembling. We held each other tightly, and sobbed and sobbed." The woman, a 38-year-old hospital worker, said the couple rejected an offer for a free round of IVF treatment as they felt they could no longer trust the hospital. She added that the incident put a great strain on her relationship with her husband. The couple began fertility treatment in 2000. Following the third cycle of treatment, the woman became pregnant and in April 2003 gave birth to a son. The remaining embryos were frozen and, in line with the clinic's policy, were kept for five years..... :roll: Read more ---> http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/wales/8098553.stm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AAAum Posted June 14, 2009 Report Share Posted June 14, 2009 hospital is like aviation business... any damage can't be estimated its value... ie. people's life, reputation etc. many latent failures can become to the active one when the chance is right... but some places ignores latent ones because they think it's tiny.. and not significant... :x hope this hospital learns something... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cherryberry Posted June 14, 2009 Report Share Posted June 14, 2009 you scared me... i have had a serial headache and last weekend i decided to go to hospital. the doc suspected me having a typhoid fever and got me an EKG scan and blood checked. everything looked fine but seemed there was something wrong with the white blood cells. i had to take some amount of pills and i will have to see the doc with another blood test this afternoon. hopefully i don't have to take the MRI scan today cos the headache is still :'( Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LakeGeneve Posted June 14, 2009 Report Share Posted June 14, 2009 They were further angered when it emerged the other woman was given the morning-after pill. It later emerged that the patient who had wrongly been given their embryo had been given the morning after pill when the mistake was spotted almost immediately. This resulted in the procedure being terminated. I am confused by this part. The option of taking the embryo out of the other woman would have been invasive for her. Or did they did not expect that the other women should carry the birth for them! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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