PrincessArky
07-11-2008, 05:51 AM
They were teenage parents excited about the birth of their twins -- a son and a daughter.
Now, Eric and Erika Garcia of Alice are planning funerals for their children. That's after thenewborn twins died this week at a Corpus Christi hospital where a pharmacy incorrectly mixed up doses of a common blood thinner heparin.
Officials at Christus Spohn Hospital South say their doctors have found no direct link between the deaths of Kevin and Kaylynn Garcia and the heparin overdoses. The Corpus Christi Caller-Times reports that a doctor told the Nueces County medical examiner that Keith Garcia died of septic infection and complications of prematurity.
Nurses at the hospital discovered Sunday night that several infants in the neonatal intensive care unit received heparin overdoses. The hospital later confirmed that 14 infants received the overdoses and three others may have just before their release, though follow up with those infants showed no ill effects.
Heparin is an anti-clotting drug used to flush intravenous lines.
http://www.ksla.com/Global/story.asp?S=8659106
how very sad :(
Now, Eric and Erika Garcia of Alice are planning funerals for their children. That's after thenewborn twins died this week at a Corpus Christi hospital where a pharmacy incorrectly mixed up doses of a common blood thinner heparin.
Officials at Christus Spohn Hospital South say their doctors have found no direct link between the deaths of Kevin and Kaylynn Garcia and the heparin overdoses. The Corpus Christi Caller-Times reports that a doctor told the Nueces County medical examiner that Keith Garcia died of septic infection and complications of prematurity.
Nurses at the hospital discovered Sunday night that several infants in the neonatal intensive care unit received heparin overdoses. The hospital later confirmed that 14 infants received the overdoses and three others may have just before their release, though follow up with those infants showed no ill effects.
Heparin is an anti-clotting drug used to flush intravenous lines.
http://www.ksla.com/Global/story.asp?S=8659106
how very sad :(