Teen dies from Med Error in Labor

The newspaper article (I will keep looking for the link for the article) said she accidently hooked up the epidural bag instead of the pennicillan bag for IVPB, she started seizing and died 2 hours later.

Apparently the pt. was very nervous about her epidural, the nurse took the epidural bag out of the pump and showed it to the patient. She apparently set the epidural bag right next to the IVPB bag of penicillan she was going to hang and got them confused.

The hospital uses a bar code system for meds, supposed to scan the med, nurses ID badge and the med before giving the med. Patient's ID band was not on the patient but still in the chart.

here's a TV link:
http://www.channel3000.com/editorial...96/detail.html

I feel bad for the family, but also feel terrible for the nurse who has been put on administrative leave. This could also impact the hospital's medicare standing as well.