The Man of Colorado dies during routine surgery after the distractions of the alarms of silence of doctors to play music bingo: legal proceedings

A man from Colorado died during routine cataract surgery after his medical team silenced critical alarms while playing music bingo, according to a trial brought by his widow.

In February 2023, Bart Reiter, 56, underwent cataract surgery at Insight Surgery Center in Lone Tree, Colorado. His wife, Chris, was informed that she could run a race and would be contacted when the procedure was finished, reported the local section 12, however, when Dr. Carl Stark Johnson, the surgeon of Reiter, met her in a parking lot near the hospital, he asked Chris if she believed in God and invited him to pray with him before telling him that her 23 -year -old husband was deceased.

“It just didn’t make sense. Bart was 56 years old. I mean, we skiped every weekend. We go bike together, we hike together,” said the writer, according to Atlanta News.

The staff noticed that the vital signs of Reiter were abnormal 11 minutes after the start of the procedure. He was precipitated in a neighboring medical center, where he died later.

Although she initially believed that her husband’s death was a tragic accident, Chris filed a complaint after another doctor contacted her to raise concerns about her husband’s medical team. This doctor revealed Dr. Johnson and the anesthesiologist, Dr. Michael Urban, often played a game called “Music Bingo” during operations, a practice he described as a “major distraction”. The game involved Dr. Urban playing songs from his phone while the team guessed the air.

According to the depositions obtained by 9News, the two doctors played the game during the Reiter procedure. Other testimonials have revealed that Dr. Urban had disabled a surveillance machine that alerted the staff of the deterioration of Reiter without informing Dr. Johnson.

“Dr. Johnson is based on anesthesiologist to provide the dose and the appropriate type of anesthesia, to properly monitor the patient’s condition and communicate all the relevant information to the surgeon, including if they have elected, for any reason, to silence audible alarms,” said surgeon of the surgeon, from 9NEWS.

Dr. Johnson held his practices and blamed the anesthesiologist not to “pay attention to the vital signs and do his job”. Nevertheless, he and his legal team finally settled the trial for an undisclosed amount.

Originally published on Latin Times