Re: Babies given wrong dose of Heparin @ Cedar Sinai Originally Posted by Suesquatch 
Okay, I am missing something.
A unit in insulin generally equals a ml. So how big would a freakin' syringe have to be to contain 10,000 u of hep?
What am I missing?
And who just grabs big, honkin' syringes and starts whacking teensy babies with 'em? I don't care where the aide alledgedly left 'em.
They make different concentrations. You can have a 1 ml vial w/10u/ml or a 1 ml vial w/10,000u/ml. Identical sized vials, identically shaped, colors (as I previously posted):
blue and
blue. You REALLY have to look closely.
We had a near miss w/this same situation in our unit. The tech stocked the pyxis w/the wrong stuff.
But, my point is that the "root cause" is the packaging. The manufacturer should NEVER have packaged them so similarly. The fact that they continue to do so is beyond belief. Inexcusable.
And, of course, that is never mentioned in the press releases. Frosts my cookies.
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