Rapid oxygen increase

Oxygen supplementation increased quickly causing lung complications and damage, leading to mechanical ventilation.

22 documented testimony clips

These testimony clips are drawn from interviews conducted by CHBMP with families and survivors. Each clip stands as evidence and remembrance. We share them to honor those who came forward, to seek accountability, and to ensure these experiences are never forgotten.

00:11:08.384 - 00:11:21.845
“"they over oxygenated me, and now I understand that they do that because it hastens your demise. But, no mouth care with with the high oxygen.”
From the testimony of Gail Seiler
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00:04:47.949 - 00:05:51.305
“"Well, his condition continued to get worse that week. I called an ambulance three times... And the reason I called him out was because his oxygen level was really dropping low, and he started having pain... the same thing happened. They got his oxygen level up. But, of course, the minute they leave, his oxygen level starts going down again.”
From the testimony of Leonard L. Brown, Jr.
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00:29:17.734 - 00:30:51.865
“"But they were using high flow oxygen to try and expand mechanically expand the, the alveoli... they must have caught a blood vessel because she lost five pints of blood in four days, and they would not replace it.”
From the testimony of Suzanne Moore
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00:26:03.339 - 00:26:12.005
“"Watching my chart, that's how he knew that they were going to that they were trying to push me to a mechanical vent is by watching the increase in the oxygen...”
From the testimony of Brenda Kay Campbell
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00:33:15.350 - 00:33:47.000
“"About an hour later, I get a call from doctor Gomez that he's gone into cardiac arrest... And on the way, about halfway on the way there, she called again and said he had gone into cardiac arrest again.”
From the testimony of Steve Gregory
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00:15:48.450 - 00:16:23.044
“"I couldn't even imagine why he did that in the first place, the do not resuscitate. But then also in looking back, they transferred in that afternoon. And when I looked back at their hospital records, it was noted when he got to the VA in Gainesville that hit the o two tank was empty. The bag was not inflated, and he was immediately placed on, oxygen. His o two level had dropped to eighty two percent in the transport because they weren't for whatever reason, they weren't taking care of them.”
From the testimony of Steve Gregory
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00:05:25.375 - 00:05:49.389
“"Within a day or two, he was basically swollen, unable to breathe. They had increased his oxygen massive amounts, caused him to do, like, lots of breathing exercises which were taxing. Every time they asked me if he was in pain, the medical records showed he would say, no, I'm not in pain, and yet they continually increased his morphine.”
From the testimony of Patrick Anderson
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00:11:58.279 - 00:12:42.975
“"Like, when I left him, he was talking when I left him. ... they should have contacted me ... by the time I got up there, because I'm about forty-five minutes out, they had already intubated him, and they had punctured his lung.”
From the testimony of Edward M. Garza
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00:14:17.320 - 00:15:24.754
“"And, yeah, there was he was very healthy... once they got into the hospital, they went downhill immediately.”
From the testimony of Emily Scott
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00:07:53.500 - 00:08:08.435
“"They took him from regular oxygen to the BiPAP, and that concerned me. And then I had read where if they keep pushing the oxygen to them, they their body thinks they need it. You know? You need to start weighing them down to kinda they weren't doing that. I was trying to ask them to do that. Oh, yeah. We're gonna do that, and they didn't.”
From the testimony of James D Thrift Jr (“Donny”)
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00:36:10.699 - 00:36:48.275
“"the pulse ox on the finger is not accurate...that oxygen is a drug, and oxygen can be used to help people, but at a high dose...can also be used to kill.”
From the testimony of Beatris Rivas
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00:18:03.525 - 00:18:56.650
“"So he received one dose of the remdesivir... They basically tortured him because he refused any further doses of the remdesivir, which then caused him, like, sinus issues. And because they bed sores because they wouldn't let him up, move around, they shoved the, you know, the oxygen up his nose at full force, which then, you know, destroyed his sinuses.”
From the testimony of Sue Cibula
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00:24:39.940 - 00:24:45.005
“"We've resuscitated him once, but he's been without oxygen for twenty minutes.”
From the testimony of Tyler Smith
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00:11:51.240 - 00:12:21.610
“"I call my dad. They're not answering... why are they intubating mama? She was just fine talking, alert... I can't tell you anything. Well, they ended up putting her intubating her.”
From the testimony of Patricia Green
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00:33:47.980 - 00:35:16.190
“"Malpractice. I mean, medical murder. I wouldn't even call it malpractice because that means they made a mistake. You know, they they didn't make a mistake. They knew exactly what they were doing. They overmedicated him with every sedative they could put on him, which, you know, even as a layperson, I knew that that would cause respiratory therapy and I I mean, respiratory failure... Why are these people always in the room? We are not talking about his death. We are trying to talk about how to get him out of here alive.”
From the testimony of Christopher Martin
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00:02:10.884 - 00:02:27.710
“"They never called his wife. My number's in his wallet. His cell phone was active. They he did not consent to it. And based on the reports, he was very combative, and they gave him medication to sedate him and put him on a ventilator within thirty minutes of entering the hospital.”
From the testimony of Stephen Leslie
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00:38:07.655 - 00:38:18.639
“"He he I mean, he walked in. He was a little you know, his mind was a little off, but he walked in under his own power. You know? He was not... He just needed some help with some oxygen.”
From the testimony of Richard Eaton
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00:40:49.050 - 00:41:05.755
“"I remember several times them saying that she was on a hundred percent oxygen. ... like I said, I was so sick. It didn't register to me what a hundred percent oxygen could do to a person's body.”
From the testimony of Jamie Kay Wylie
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00:01:53.740 - 00:01:55.520
“"And he was turning blue,”
From the testimony of Charles Vanasse
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00:08:42.845 - 00:09:01.649
“"And I was like, why? Like, I don't understand. Like, as soon as they put him on that remdesivir, his oxygenation just dropped, plummeted, like, severely, and he got put on such high, high, high quantities of oxygen.”
From the testimony of Yancy Rae Thompson
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00:23:59.250 - 00:25:30.015
“"remdesivir kills, you know, half of its patients. But when you add to the fact when you add a vent in the equation, like, they always do something to get you to the vent... it gets the patient addicted to each level that they increase it... fast and high is going to is gonna damage your lung and, you know, cause an issue.”
From the testimony of Jerry Serna
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01:00:53.715 - 01:01:54.760
“"They restrain you. They starve you, and they dehydrate you. Okay? They drug you to the point where you are unaware. If you are lucky enough to have communication, which our mother was not, she is completely she has no communication with her family whatsoever who she talked to daily, multiple times a day. They put, a high flow mask on you that is uncomfortable, probably painful. The restraints are painful. My mother had marks, bruises on her face. They had her oxygen so high. What they do is they pop your lung. Okay? So then you're in excruciating pain from that. Then they put you on a ventilator, which you're never coming off of. So and they lie to the family. They lied to you, if you're aware.”
From the testimony of Georgette Guccione
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