The packaging of the blood thinners that were mistakenly switched in a string of hospital errors that killed three premature babies is confusing, the attorney for the families of two of the infants said Thursday. The three babies, who were all receiving care at Methodist Hospital in Indianapolis, died when they were accidentally given doses of heparin, which is 1,000 times stronger than the blood thinner they should have received.
September 25, 2006 at 12:00 AM
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The packaging of the blood thinners that were mistakenly switched in a string of Indianapolis hospital errors that killed three premature babies is confusing, the attorney for the families of two of the infants said Thursday.
Nathaniel Lee, who represents the families of Thursday Dawn Jeffers and Emmery Miller, said he would ask Baxter International Inc. to change how it labels the blood thinners heparin and its much-weaker version, hep-lock.
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