The bed pusher of the Ministry of Health and Welfare took advantage of the patient's medical pipeline, and introduced oxygen into the nasogastric tube to infuse the patient's stomach to death. The Taoyuan District Court sentenced the bed pusher Chen who caused the trouble to one year and two months in prison for negligent death.

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[Reporter Yu Ruiren/Taoyuan Report] An outsourced bed pusher named Chen at Taoyuan Hospital of the Ministry of Health and Welfare pushed patients to the ultrasound examination room for examination in March 2020. When operating the patient's life support line by himself, he connected the nasogastric tube by mistake The oxygen tank was injected into the patient's stomach, causing the patient's stomach to burst and burst, causing septic shock, and finally died of multiple organ failure.

Appealable.

The patient's family also lodged a complaint against Xu Yongnian, the director of Taoyuan Hospital at the time, the head nurse surnamed Zheng, and the person in charge of the outsourcer surnamed Zeng. Punishment without prosecution.

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According to the investigation by the prosecution, at 8 am on March 18, 2020, Chen Nan, 30, pushed the patient who was going to undergo an abdominal ultrasound examination together with the hospital bed to the examination room on the first floor. Unauthorized operation of the pipeline under the guidance of no one connected the oxygen cylinder to the patient's nasogastric tube, causing a large amount of gas to be poured into the body and explode the stomach. He died on March 22 due to complications such as septic shock, multiple organ failure, and infection of body tissues.

During the investigation by the prosecution, Chen Nan said that he had just arrived at the company and was not very clear about the job content, because the senior employee who took him at that time told him to connect the pipeline and then go to smoke, so he did his own research and connection, and did not know what to do. I knew I could ask a nurse for confirmation, but unexpectedly I ran into a big disaster.

The judge of the Taoyuan District Court held that Chen Nan, as a patient transporter, could only engage in the medical assistance of moving patients, but caused the death of the patient by intubating without authorization. Reconciliation was reached, and Chen confessed to the crime after deliberation.