UC Irvine Medical Center issued warning for drug pump problems

Friday, September 18, 2009 - 02:28 in Health & Medicine

The alert, issued in July and lifted within 24 hours, was the result of a state probe into nurses' claims that faulty devices led to overdoses. The hospital has since filed a plan of correction. State inspectors investigating claims by nurses that faulty drug pumps had led to the accidental overdose of five patients at UC Irvine Medical Center found three deficiencies and...

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