{"id":139460,"date":"2023-04-02T08:15:07","date_gmt":"2023-04-02T12:15:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=139460"},"modified":"2023-04-01T18:30:57","modified_gmt":"2023-04-01T22:30:57","slug":"marvin-jacobs-army-veteran-dies-after-nurse-fails-to-clear-his-airway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=139460","title":{"rendered":"Marvin Jacobs, Army veteran, dies after nurse fails to clear his airway"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Army veteran Marvin Jacobs signaled to the nursing home staff that he was having difficulties breathing. Jacobs pointed to his neck indicating that he could not breathe. He had a tracheostomy that resulted in the occasional need for a suctioning machine to unclog his airway. The nurse that responded to this emergency did not utilize the suctioning machine. She took his vitals instead, despite his showing signs of emergency distress, to include having a face that turned purple and then blue.<\/p>\n

From the Iowa Capital Dispatch:<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

When the nurse entered the room, Jacobs was pale, but soon turned purple and then blue, the aide later reported. The nurse took his vital signs and told the aide Jacobs was having a heart attack. The aide explained to the nurse that Jacobs had been signaling he couldn’t breathe, at which point the nurse said, “Just a minute,” and left the room. The suctioning machine sat idle on Jacobs’ nearby dresser.<\/p>\n

The nurse later told inspectors the “staff wanted me to suction him (and) I told the staff no. I was told that I would not have to do anything with the tracheostomy.” The nurse said she first left the room to get supplies so she could check Jacobs’ blood pressure, pulse and oxygen levels and that when she returned, he was clammy and had an irregular pulse.<\/p>\n

“I told the staff that I needed to go back to the nurses’ station and find out if the resident was a full code or DNR,” the nurse told inspectors, referring to do-not-resuscitate orders that some residents have in place.<\/p>\n

She told inspectors that while she was checking on that, one of the aides approached her and said she was needed right away in Jacobs’ room. “I went back into his room and he had no blood pressure, no pulse, and no respirations. I pronounced him deceased,” she told inspectors.<\/p>\n

She acknowledged her fellow workers had each told her Jacobs needed his airway suctioned and that he had been pointing to his neck and mouthing that he couldn’t breathe. She said that despite her colleagues’ comments, it never occurred to her to suction Jacobs’ airway.<\/p>\n

The Iowa Department of Inspections and Appeals fined Fonda Specialty Care $10,000 for the death, then reduced that penalty 35%, to $6,500, due to the lack of an appeal in the case.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The Iowa Capital Dispatch has the article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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