Fatal drug mix-up exposes hospital flaws (AP)

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Reply Fri 22 Sep, 2006 01:15 pm
Fatal drug mix-up exposes hospital flaws
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<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/health/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060922/ap_on_he_me/preemie_deaths"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20060922/capt.e91f3403f10943a085da7daf57a27a1e.preemie_deaths_na102.jpg?x=126&y=130&sig=IJRGhfo7c5ladX_4sCORdA--" align="left" height="130" width="126" alt="In this recent photo released by her family, Thursday Dawn Jeffers is shown in her incubator at Methodist Hospital in Indianapolis. The newborn premature baby died late Tuesday, Sept. 19, 2006, at Riley Hospital for Children, where she was transferred after being born at Methodist. She is the third premature infant to have died after accidentally being given an adult-sized dose of heparin, a blood thinner medication, at the hospital last week. (AP Photo/Jeffers Family)" border="0" /></a>AP - Early last Saturday, nurses at an Indianapolis hospital went to the drug cabinet in the newborn intensive care unit to get blood-thinner for several premature babies.</p><br clear="all"/>

 
 

 
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