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Formalin Instead of Saline Drip: Patient dies after accidentally being embalmed alive
In an extreme medical blunder, she was put on a formalin instead of a saline drip after surgery.
Russia: A 27-year-old Russian woman has died after being embalmed alive due to a horrific medical blunder.
Medics put Ekaterina Fedyaeva on a formalin drip after routine surgery in her home city of Ulyanovsk, instead of connecting her to a saline one.
Formalin is a colourless solution of formaldehyde in water, which is infused into the veins of dead bodies to prevent decomposition.
Ekaterina suffered excruciating pains and convulsions for two days before falling into a coma. She was moved to a top hospital in Moscow and awoke briefly from the coma, but doctors were not able to save her, and she died of multiple organ failures.
Her mother, Galina Baryshnikova, said the formalin had eroded Ekaterina’s body from the inside.
She said medical staff knew they had infused something wrong, but failed to take the urgent steps necessary to save her daughter.
Instead, they told her “to go home, cook chicken soup and stop worrying”.
Ekaterina was her only child.
“I spoke to the criminal investigator, and he told me it was negligence. But this is pure murder,” Galina, who buried her daughter on April 7, said.
A criminal investigation is underway.
Garima joined Medical Dialogues in the year 2017 and is currently working as a Senior Editor. She looks after all the Healthcare news pertaining to Medico-legal cases, NMC/DCI decisions, Medical Education issues, government policies as well as all the news and updates concerning Medical and Dental Colleges in India. She is a graduate from Delhi University and pursuing MA in Journalism and Mass Communication. She can be contacted at editorial@medicaldialogues.in Contact no. 011-43720751
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