On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 11:45 AM, Scott Stroz <[email protected]> wrote: > This morning, my son started to get nauseous again so my wife asked for > fenegrin, an anti-emetic medicine, which was ordered for when he got > nauseous. It took about 30 minutes for him to get it because the nurse did > not know how to administer the medicine. If my wife was not there to talk > her through it, who knows how long it would have taken.
This one scares the crap out of me. My wife has been given phenegryn shots several times for migraines (and has a pill prescription now). It was great. Then I just read a month or so ago about the Supreme Court ruling that a drug company could be sued for not putting adequate warnings/instructions on their drugs even if the labeling was approved by the FDA. What was the situation that caused the suit? Turns out that people lose limbs if Phenegryn is given as intravenously instead of intramuscularly. I knew that she had always gotten the shot in her hip and I could have done it myself. But what if a nurse had tried to give her the shot in her arm? Would I have tried to stop her and say, "um, doesn't it normally go in her buttock?" I don't know. During those times I'm just trying to comfort her while she is in horrid pain. I might not think to question the nurse and I know more than most. There is so much to know in that field and so much that can go wrong even with good intentions. Scary stuf ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:293383 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
