Nation IN BRIEF : PENNSYLVANIA : Hospital Error Cause of 3 Infants’ Deaths

Two hospital pharmacy workers were fired in Philadelphia after the deaths of three premature infants who had received an incorrectly mixed intravenous solution, hospital officials said. A potassium-rich formula caused the babies’ heartbeats to drop and led to their deaths, said Martin Goldsmith, president of Albert Einstein Medical Center. “Someone picked up the wrong bottle,” he said. The infants, two boys and a girl, were all in the hospital’s neonatal intensive care unit. The employees’ names were not released.