Baby Killed by Extra Zero On a Drug Dose

Daily MailDecember 21, 2006

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A BABY died after nurses misread a prescription and gave her ten times the correct dose of a blood-thinning drug.

A 'U' in the note to administer 1,500 'units' of the medication was read as a zero and ten-week- old Madison Perry was given 15,000 units. She died the following day.

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Baby Killed by Extra Zero On a Drug Dose

The baby could have been saved even after the overdose, but blood tests which would have shown the seriousnes...

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