The hospital is not providing many details, but NewsChannel 5 Investigates talked with one of those families. Here’s what we can tell you.
Last Friday, at least four people went to Ascension Saint Thomas Midtown in Nashville for joint replacement surgeries, and a drug mix-up led to things going horribly wrong in the operating room.
The family of a Centerville woman who was there for a knee replacement told NewsChannel 5 Investigates that she is now permanently paralyzed from the chest down.
She was supposed to have had an epidural for pain, but the wrong medication was injected. She was not the only one. There were at least three others.
Drug mix-up during surgeries at Nashville hospital leaves at least one paralyzed