Mother Says Her Six-Year-Old Was Given Wrong Medication

A six-year-old ends up in the emergency room after his mother says he was given the wrong dose of medication at a North Little Rock school.

Our pediatrician gave my daughter the wrong vaccine

Our pediatrician gave my daughter the wrong vaccine

We'd left the pediatrician's office a mere two hours before the call came. On a recent sunny, summer afternoon, I'd brought my two daughters in for their annual physicals. They'd been weighed and measured and prodded and had blood drawn and received their shots and been handed lollipops at the end. We'd discovered my 11-year-old has grown 3 inches in the past year; my 7-year-old has grown 2. Their vision and hearing and vitals are all good. Two apparently clean bills of health -- it was all a family could wish for. Their blood and urine tests, meanwhile, likely hadn't even left for the lab yet. So why then was our doctor calling us back so soon? "I'm so sorry to tell you this," she said. "The nurse gave your child the wrong vaccine." At the end of the visit, my soon-to-be middle-schooler Lucy, my beautiful Harry Potter obsessive, was supposed to get the meningitis vaccine. Instead, for reasons still not fully clear to me, the nurse saw a preteen female in the chair, reached for the HPV vaccine Gardasil, and injected her.

Mom: CVS Gave My Child Wrong Prescription

A local mother says she came dangerously close to giving her child the wrong prescription. As Susan Wornick reports, it's one of about 2 dozen mistakes by CVS pharmacy over the last year.

Medication Mistake Kills Toddler at Hospital-Ran Care Facility

Children's Hospital & Medical Center believes human error led to the accidental death of a 19-month-old girl. Alicia Coleman had a seizure and went into cardiac arrest Saturday morning after medication was improperly routed into her system.

Medication Mistake Kills Toddler at Hospital-Ran Care Facility

Medical reports awaited on three drug mistakes at children's hospital

Medical reports awaited on three drug mistakes at children's hospital

One year after several medication errors at Alberta Children's Hospital, there are still lingering questions about what went wrong in the three cases — including two non-fatal drug overdoses in young patients.

High drug error rate found in children’s treatment

Clinicians are making too many mistakes with drug treatments for children in hospital when prescribing or administering medicines, shows research published online in the Archives of Disease in Childhood.

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Catching Deadly Drug Mistakes

Catching Deadly Drug Mistakes

A nurse misunderstands an abbreviation on a pharmacy order, and gives an accidental overdose of a drug that slows the heart rate, killing the patient. Intravenous fluids are administered after surgery at too-high a rate to a child, who then dies because of the error. Confusion over a drug name leads to insulin being added to infant nutrition IV solutions instead of the intended medication, heparin, an anti-clotting drug: The consequences are fatal.