More Crime News On Prescription Drug Mix Ups

A headline today on msn.com was titled Drug Name Mix Ups Getting Worse. In the article was cited several cases of prescription drug mix ups.

One where a child went to the emergency room for asthma seeking the allergy drug Zyrtec and instead got the schizophrenia drug Zyprexa. And another where a patient was given the bipolar drug Laictal instead of the Labetalol for high blood pressure.

When Dr. Julius Pham discovered a critical error of one of his patients he said, "If you have ever had that sinking feeling that drops to the bottom of your stomach, I had it."

His critically ill heart patient was given an antibiotic instead of a blood pressure drug, and he didn't make it.

And many of you have heard of the actor Dennis Quaid's twin babies being given massive amounts of the blood thinner Heparin because of a label mix up.

Drug mix-ups have more than doubled since 2004 with 1.4 % of the errors resulting in patient harm.

In the article some suggestions were made for solving the problem such as pharmacies separating and differentiating easily confused drugs and labeling some drugs with capital letters in part of the names. Also doctors could write on the prescriptions what each drug was for.

The prescription drug mix up is all crime news to me.

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