Former Vanderbilt nurse arrested, charged with homicide for medication error
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Tennessee law enforcement agents announced they had arrested and charged a nurse with reckless homicide and patient abuse for a fatal medication error she allegedly committed while working at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in December 2017. The charges allege that the nurse intended to provide an ordered dose of midazolam (Versed) to an anxious patient with a subdural hematoma who was going into a radiology scanner. The nurse could not find the medicine where it was supposed to be, so she used an override function on a dispensing cabinet and distractedly took out vecuronium (the first "VE" entry) instead of Versed. The patient received the paralyzying drug, then experienced respiratory and cardiac arrest and died a day or two later.
Former Vanderbilt nurse arrested, charged with homicide for medication error
Former Vanderbilt nurse arrested, charged…
Former Vanderbilt nurse arrested, charged with homicide for medication error
Tennessee law enforcement agents announced they had arrested and charged a nurse with reckless homicide and patient abuse for a fatal medication error she allegedly committed while working at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in December 2017. The charges allege that the nurse intended to provide an ordered dose of midazolam (Versed) to an anxious patient with a subdural hematoma who was going into a radiology scanner. The nurse could not find the medicine where it was supposed to be, so she used an override function on a dispensing cabinet and distractedly took out vecuronium (the first "VE" entry) instead of Versed. The patient received the paralyzying drug, then experienced respiratory and cardiac arrest and died a day or two later.