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Did nurse give digoxin O/D which caused death?

Publication: Medical Law's Regan Report
Publication Date: 01-FEB-08 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

Article Excerpt
MICHAEL DUNN WAS BORN WITH TRICUSPID ATRESIA. The Fontan procedure (consisting of three surgical procedures), was employed to correct the defect. Following the third procedure, Michael, while in the pediatric ICU at Shands Teaching Hospital, developed a rapid heartbeat as well as an abnormal heart rhythm. He was suffering from a form of tachycardia that often develops as a post-surgical complication in approximately fifteen to twenty percent of children who undergo the Fontan procedure. After employing a number of corrective efforts without success, attending physicians ordered a saline-type solution to build up the volume of the heart, and sedated Michael with a dose of morphine, and then administered a series of other drugs ordinarily used to control heart arrhythmia. When these measures failed, Michael's attending physicians ordered Digoxin in an effort to improve the pumping action of the heart, well aware of the attendant...

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