How can this be happening?!


Question: There are no words to discribe my outrage..

Deadly Dose: Pharmacy Error Kills Infant
Reporter: Hospital's Pharmacy Run Like a 'Temp Agency'.

Shinn says she could tell Alyssa was on the brink of death.

"I just knew," she said. "And I just started to cry hysterically, knowing that my daughter Alyssa was going to die."

After confirming that no one else was going to visit Alyssa, physicians turned off the ventilator and the Shinns held their lifeless child for the first time. "We were able to put her in a little dress," said Shinn. "And I got to hold her for the first time."

The Shinns were told that, during the night, Alyssa had received a fatal overdose of zinc from her intravenous nutrition bag, a mistake made in the hospital pharmacy. Pam Goff, the lead pharmacist on duty, was summoned to see her supervisor.


Answers: There are no words to discribe my outrage..

Deadly Dose: Pharmacy Error Kills Infant
Reporter: Hospital's Pharmacy Run Like a 'Temp Agency'.

Shinn says she could tell Alyssa was on the brink of death.

"I just knew," she said. "And I just started to cry hysterically, knowing that my daughter Alyssa was going to die."

After confirming that no one else was going to visit Alyssa, physicians turned off the ventilator and the Shinns held their lifeless child for the first time. "We were able to put her in a little dress," said Shinn. "And I got to hold her for the first time."

The Shinns were told that, during the night, Alyssa had received a fatal overdose of zinc from her intravenous nutrition bag, a mistake made in the hospital pharmacy. Pam Goff, the lead pharmacist on duty, was summoned to see her supervisor.

The doctor messed up by putting in the wrong order.
The pharmacist messed up by not questioning something like that which would be lethal.
The hospital messed up by using such a system that makes it so EASY to order the wrong quantity like that.
The nurse who started this IV should have noted that this was a lethal dosage of zinc, and called the whole thing into question.

It's a domino effect of a number of people not doing their jobs.

that is insanly sad!! omg that docter should definetly get life in prison!!

='(

This is a tragedy what happens quite often within the medical world hospital physicians not checking with patients doctors and switching medications some time causing fatalities.
Doctors , nurses, technicians over worked not getting proper rest and some times not educated in the proper procedures they need to know to do their jobs properly.
but this will continue to happen without some guide lines and control administered

This is terribly sad. What do you say about staff who is overworked; tired; dealing with tedious yet crucially important activities?

Hospital's are always putting new guidelines into effect to "prevent" errors...& yet they still continue to happen.

Really tragic.





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