U.S. Inaction Lets Look-Alike Tubes Kill Patients
By GARDINER HARRIS
Thirty-five weeks pregnant, Robin Rodgers was vomiting and losing weight, so her doctor hospitalized her and ordered that she be fed through a tube until the birth of her daughter.
But in a mistake that stemmed from years of lax federal oversight of medical devices, the hospital mixed up the tubes. Instead of snaking a tube through Ms. Rodgers’s nose and into her stomach, the nurse instead coupled the liquid-food bag to a tube that entered a vein. ....
U.S. Inaction Lets Look-Alike Tubes Kill Patients - NYTimes.com
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