Texas hospital overdoses babies....
By TessWhite
@TessWhite (3146)
United States
July 9, 2008 12:07pm CST
A hospital near where I live has learned that they mistakenly overdosed 17 premature infants with a drug Heparin, a well known blood thinner. The worse part is the overdosage was 100 times stronger than the amount the infants should have received. Now, one of the infants has died they report today and another is barely clinging to life. While the hospital admits it's mistake I am still amazed that this could happen. Two people are required by regulations to mix this drug before it is issued. Two people did so, and yet they BOTH missed the fact that they were mixing it 100 times stronger than prescribed. How can this happen in this day and age? How would you feel if this was your child?
1 response
@peavey (16936)
• United States
10 Jul 08
I think health care professionals need to be more responsible for the outcome of their dealings with people, infants or not. As the first poster said, they should be sued. Maybe not the hospital though, because they just pass on the costs of a lawsuit to me and you, but find out who did it and make them responsible for it.
@TessWhite (3146)
• United States
10 Jul 08
Yea I'm not sure what is going to happen. I'm sure the news will stay on it. Thanks for the reply.
