Question

create two case study senerios involving a legal issue with specimen collection. include what to do to prevent it from happening and what legal charges could possibly be pressed against phlebotamist or whomever is collecting the sample.

Answer 1

1.CASE STUDY

Mr. X a 26 Yr old young man got admitted to the hospital on 08/10/2020, with the complaints of severe diarrhoea and vomiting since 2 days. He said, he had food from outside. He looked so lethargic and dehydrated. Doctor ordered to check the electrolyte range, to see any electrolyte imblance. Nurse informed phlebotomist to collect blood for this and patient and for the other patient, which doctor ordered before.

Phlebotomist collected both samples, brought to send to the lab, he found labelling was not done on the sample containers.He couldn't send the sample.

Here, the phlebotomist if would've been checked the containers for labelling, this will not happened.

2.CASE STUDY

As per doctor order phlebotomist came to collect blood for Mr. Y who admitted the hospital with seizures. He collected the sample and the sent to the wrong lab, the sample has to reach biochemistry, but went to clinical pathology. Since the results didn't come, doctor checked, it was not reached the particular lab.

Here, the phlebotomist if would've checked the containers for labelling, this will not happened.

*Identification of patient is very important before any procedure.

*Recheck the labelling of containers, also counter check with the patient ID tag

*Counter check with assigned nurse is always good

*Before and after the sampling, we should make sure the labelling and patient.

*Wrong sampling or mistakes in such thing can bring to legal issues, which can affect the individual as well the institution.

*As a medical provider, we should know about the samples, the lab to which it has to go and the different containers to which blood has to collect.