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Article Source: theage.com.au -- By Julie RobothamALEXANDER Zheng's cot is still unassembled in a Sydney apartment where he has never been.
Home, for now, is a bassinet wedged into a room in the high-dependency unit of St George Hospital, where the two-month-old's mother lies catastrophically injured.
how sad is that. What an inexcusable mistake that will cost the hospital the bank. However, that will never make up for that tragedy.
#1 - Sat Aug 21, 2010 9:26 AM EDTEpidural administration of chlorhexidine - used to clean skin before injections and strong enough to neutralise resistant hospital bacteria - is so rare that Ms Wang's doctors have identified only one other case. Angelique Sutcliffe, from Britain, was paralysed for life after the chemical entered her epidural in 2001. But this was just a droplet - a fraction of the eight millilitres infused into Ms Wang.
I don't even know how something like that can even happen; I've seen two epidurals administered in my lifetime. The cleaner is used externally, so how could its container be so easily confused and/or configured for injection?
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