Hospital Drug Error Blamed for Baby’s Death
From Times Wire Reports
A missing decimal point on a prescription for a 6-day-old infant recovering from heart surgery led to a deadly overdose, a lawyer for his parents said.
“A gargantuan dose of potassium chloride extinguished my clients’ first-born child,” said David Raimondo, an attorney for Ana Celina and Giovanni Vargas.
Raimondo announced plans to sue Stony Brook University Hospital over the death Tuesday of Gianni Vargas. The Vargases said officials told them a prescription dosage read 35, rather than 3.5.
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