A no-trespassing sign is nailed to a tree adjacent to the high ropes course at Greenway Farm in Hixson.When Melvin Davis was carried into the emergency room last Thursday, a doctor noticed something wasn’t right.
“Soon after we arrived at Erlanger with a patient, [the ER doctor] visually determined the wrong IV bag was hung and reported it to the supervisor,” said Chief Ken Wilkerson, who oversees Hamilton County Medical Services.
It was a normal saline bag with a medication injected into it, but it was the wrong medicine and it was coursing through Davis’ veins.
The doctor notified the supervisors of paramedic Timothy Waldo and emergency medical technician Jamie Jackson. They brought Davis, 57, to the hospital after he was cut down from a rope tied around his ankle on a challenges course at Greenway Farms. Davis said he had been hanging there for two days.
Within 30 minutes, the supervisors took Waldo and Jackson off duty pending the outcome of an investigation.