Formerly known as King Drew Medical Center and still known in EMS as killer king, King Harbor Medical Center uses surprisingly out of date equipment for a trauma center.
We picked up a patient today from King Harbor Medical Center ER that had two IVs. The amazing part was that the IV locks and tubing were the old school type that require you to use needles around the patient whenever you administer a drug. This creates a much larger chance of an accidental needle stick for the health care professional. The sad part is that because the rest of the county has switched over to the needless system the patient, upon arriving at the hospital she was going to be staying at for observation, the first thing they were going to do is discontinue the old IVs and start new ones. The poor patient ad to be stuck again because King Harbor Medical Center is behind the times.
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