Hospital Error Kills Autistic Boy
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Air Health Home Men's Health Women's Health Children's Health Alternative Medicine Diabetes Heart Health Nutrition & Fitness Children's Health Colorado family says pharmacy error killed their son Published June 20, caroline steinbrecher 2016 FoxNews.com Facebook0 Twitter0 livefyre Email Print Jake Steinbrecher, 8, died June 8. medication error stories (Jake Steinbrecher Dance Fund) A Colorado family says a local pharmacy’s mix-up on their son’s hyperactivity medication contributed to his
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June 8 death. Jake Steinbrecher, 8, had taken Clonidine for three years and was hospitalized once before after a pharmacist prescribed 1,000 times the dosage he needed, The Denver Channel reported. “He immediately
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started having reactions to it,” Caroline Steinbrecher, Jake’s mom, told the news station. According to the National Institutes of Health (NIH), clonidine can be used alone or in combination to treat high blood pressure, and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)in children. The medication caused Jake’s brain to swell after he ingested 30 mg rather than the prescribed .03 mg. “It wasn’t a mistake,” Caroline told The miami police shooting video Denver Channel. “It was sentinel error.” More on this... Monitoring doctors cuts opioid prescriptions Prescription habits predict compliance with breast cancer pills FDA seeks suspension of 4,402 illegal prescription drug websites After doctors determined he was symptom free, they released him from the hospital. But he began having a reaction again in early June. An autopsy is ongoing, but the family’s lawyer said Good Day Pharmacy in Loveland, which was responsible for his medication, has admitted to making another mistake in the dosage. “How could somebody do that?” Caroline said. “How there was no other way to make sure the medicine was mixed correctly before it was out the door other than the say-so of the pharmacist who made it.” The family wants Jake’s story to serve as a cautionary tale about medication for other parents and their children. “People need to be aware of what is being given to their children. They trust doctors, and they trust pharmacists to do the right thing for them and to keep their children safe, but these are all just people and people make mistakes and errors and that’s where more protection needs to be in place,” she t
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