The Prince of Wales Hospital in Shatin announced a medical incident tonight (9th).
An old man was sent to the emergency department of the hospital on the 1st of this month due to slow reaction and fainting. He suffers from various chronic diseases and needs to take the oral steroid drug "hydrocortisone" (hydrocortisone) for a long time. The doctor gave him intravenous injection. The cortisol acetate was stopped until the morning of the 4th of this month, but the prescription of oral cortisol acetate was not resumed after that.
The old man was sent to the Accident and Emergency Department of the Prince of Wales Hospital in Shatin on March 1 due to slow reaction and fainting.
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Weiyuan Institute established a root cause analysis committee to investigate the incident in detail
The hospital said that the 81-year-old male patient was admitted to the hospital and the examination showed that the patient had low blood pressure and lung infection. The hospital arranged the patient to be admitted to the internal medicine ward.
According to the clinical condition of the patient, the doctor gave cortisol acetate by intravenous injection. The patient's condition improved after that. The doctor adjusted the dose on March 3 and stopped the intravenous injection of cortisol acetate on the morning of March 4, but it did not recover. Prescription oral cortisol acetate.
The hospital said that the patient's blood pressure remained stable since then, and the blood pressure could not be measured until 7:05 pm on March 5. The doctor immediately gave the patient first aid, but the patient finally passed away at 7:33 pm that night.
That is, the interval between drug withdrawal and death is about one and a half days.
The hospital is very saddened by the death of the patient, and has explained the incident to the patient's family and expressed its deep apologies and condolences.
The hospital will continue to maintain close communication with the family and provide all feasible assistance.
The hospital has reported the case to the coroner and will cooperate with the investigation.
The hospital said that it is very concerned about this incident, and has listed the incident as a medical risk warning incident and reported it to the head office of the Hospital Authority, and will set up a root cause analysis committee to investigate the incident in detail and make suggestions for improvement.
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Cortisol acetate is a steroid primarily used to relieve a variety of inflammatory conditions, including mild skin inflammations such as eczema, acute allergic reactions such as upper airway angioedema and anaphylaxis, replacement therapy for adrenal insufficiency, or severe inflammatory bowel disease Disease ulcerative colitis.
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