Two Children at Johns Hopkins Given Overdoses of Chemotherapy
August 1, 2002
Health officials in Baltimore revealed yesterday that two children received overdoses of chemotherapy while being treated at Johns Hopkins Children's Center. The patients, both unidentified, received twice the correct dosage of the cancer medication Carboplatin, which may have resulted in one of the children, a 2-year-old boy, going deaf.
A spokesperson for the Maryland Office of Health Care Quality, now investigating the accident, admitted that hearing loss was a known side effect of the drug but insisted the overdose considerably increased the child's risk of going deaf. The other patient, a young girl, was not harmed by the overdose. According to initial reports, the accident was due to physician error, although hospital officials would not reveal which doctors were involved in the incident.
-- Article Courtesy of InjuryBoard.com
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