As We All Know We Have To Work Hard To Avoid The Downside Of Technology In Health Care. Here Is A Digital Health Disaster We All Need To Learn From!

This appeared last week:Paul Lau died at Sydney hospital after wrongly being prescribed fentanyl: inquestGeorgina Mitchell Published: February 5 2018 - 4:58PMA patient who went to a north-west Sydney hospital for an "uneventful" day surgery died within hours after an anaesthetist accidentally prescribed him a potent opioid meant for someone else, an inquest has heard.Paul Lau, 54, was a keen skier who went to Macquarie University Hospital on June 18, 2015, for a reconstruction of the anterior cruciate ligament on his left knee.Mr Lau, a father of two, had a successful surgery and was taken to recovery. He rarely took painkillers, so he was meant to receive tablets of oxycodone and paracetamol to manage his pain.Instead, when his medical chart was confused with another patient's, he was given a patch and a patient-controlled pump of the strong painkiller fentanyl, which led to him dying in the early hours of June 19 from multiple drug toxicity.On Monday, an inquest into... This is the initial part of the post - read more by clicking on the title of the article. David.
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