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A Philadelphia woman is suing after a fertility doctor accidentally injected her with acid instead of saline.<\/p>\n

The Philadelphia Inquirer reported<\/a> that Christine (who was only identified by her first name) was supposed to have saline injected into her fallopian tubes at Main Line Fertility to check for blockages. The procedure went horribly wrong.<\/p>\n

“I felt burning,” she said. \u201cI kept saying, \u2018Something is off. Something is wrong. Is it supposed to burn?\u2019”<\/p>\n

Christine said the doctor, Allison Bloom, ignored her pain and left the room after finishing the procedure. Meanwhile, a nurse noticed Christine’s discomfort and told her to lay down; instead, Christine stood up, with fluid gushing down her legs, with welts on her legs so bad that it looked like boiling water had been splashed onto her skin.<\/p>\n

Staff put cold, wet paper towels on her legs and thighs, but the pain didn’t get any better. \u201cI don\u2019t know what labor feels like, unfortunately, but I felt like, this is the worst thing I\u2019ve ever experienced,” Christine said.<\/p>\n

Eventually, the ultrasound technician checked the bottle, and realized Bloom had injected Christine with an 85% concentration of trichloroacetic acid. \u201cAll hands on deck! Get everybody in here!\u201d Bloom yelled, as everyone rushed to work \u2014 but Christine still didn’t know what had happened.<\/p>\n

Paramedics eventually told her after they passed two hospitals in order to get to one with a burn center. \u201c’Oh, honey, they didn\u2019t put saline solution through you, that was acid,’\u201d she said they told her. \u201cI didn\u2019t believe him. I didn\u2019t understand.”<\/p>\n

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A spokesperson for Main Line Fertility claims Bloom isn’t to blame. \u201cWe can share that Dr. Bloom was not responsible for the acid being in the procedure room,” they said in a statement. “She also was not involved in prefilling the syringe.”<\/p>\n

Christine suffered first- and second-degree burns, both externally and internally. Her reproductive organs are scarred so badly that Christine said they resemble leather. Doctors asked if she would participate in a research paper, and she agreed. Meanwhile, she has permanent scars down the backs of her legs, is unable to lift children at the preschool where she works, and is in constant pain. The long-term effects, as the acid was absorbed into her body, are not known.<\/p>\n

David Barad, an OB\/GYN and reproductive endocrinologist, told the Philadelphia Inquirer that trichloroacetic acid is used occasionally to treat genital warts, but only in tiny amounts. Outside of the medical industry, it was previously used as an herbicide, and to etch metal \u2014 which speaks to how caustic it is.<\/p>\n

\u201cOnce the stuff hits the tissue, you can\u2019t fix it,\u201d Barad said. \u201cWhen you brush it onto tissue, it turns white because it\u2019s basically cooking it.\u201d<\/p>\n

He also said it would be difficult to successfully carry a baby after such an injury. \u201cIt\u2019s like having a garden replaced with cement,” he explained. “There\u2019s nowhere to plant the flower.”<\/p>\n

This kind of mistake is so serious that it was described as a “never event,” because it’s both preventable, and should never happen. \u201cThe infusion of a scarifying, burn-inducing fluid is definitely a \u2018never event,\u2019\u201d Zane Robinson Wolf, who lectures and writes on patient safety at La Salle University\u2019s School of Nursing and Health Science, said. \u201cThe pain of it \u2014 to be burned internally and externally \u2014 is very traumatic.\u201d<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Main Line Fertility is still billing Christine and her husband, Jason, for the botched procedure, with the clinic now threatening to report them to a collections agency if they don’t pay.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s not a day that goes by that you\u2019re not reminded, \u2018Oh, yeah, this happened to me,\u2019\u201d Christine said. \u201cIt doesn\u2019t stop, and I feel like they just put it behind them, that it was just a blip in their day, \u2018Oops a mistake was made. Carry on. Forget it ever happened.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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