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ISO analysis of a med error

Please move this if it's in the wrong place. :)

I did a search but didn't find what I was looking for. There was a case in CO with a NICU baby receiving the wrong dose of PenG (I think) which resulted in one of the first cases of nurses being prosecuted criminally. Nursing ____ (year) magazine did an amazing, in depth analysis of the med error. Does anyone remember either the year of the article or know where I can find it?

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I believe the event you are looking for was reported in the May 1998 issue of Nursing and involved a newborn being injected with 10x the I.M. dose of PenG via I.V. Nursing's archive only has full text back to 2002, but I think this is the article from another source:

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3689/is_199805/ai_n8795294

There also appears to be a followup article in the June 1998 issue:

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3689/is_199806/ai_n8788885

Hope this helps. What a sad and tragic mistake.

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That's exactly what I was looking for. Thank you! The analysis was amazing...there were just so many places it went wrong.

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