3 y. o Girl dies after nitrous oxide/flu vax

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What on earth is a 3 y.o. getting flu vax for anyway - no mention of

preexisting conditions that doctors think demand flu vax (diabetes, heart

conditions, etc).

Sheri

>From Belkin...

It must be just a coincidence...

MB

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Najiyah, from Manor Park, east London, had suffered a seizure before but

this is not thought to be connected with the flu injection.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk:80/et?ac=000281910553002 & rtmo=asNxpXpL & amp;atmo=9

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Electronic TelegraphUK News

ISSUE 2092Thursday 15 February 2001

Girl, three, dies after being given wrong gas

By Alleyne and Celia Hall

THE family of a three-year-old girl who died in hospital after being

given " laughing gas " instead of oxygen yesterday demanded action to end the

spate of NHS accidents.

Najiyah Hussain fell ill shortly after having a flu injection and was taken

to hospital suffering from fits. But when she arrived at Newham General

Hospital's Accident and Emergency department she was given nitrous oxide

gas instead of oxygen. A doctor placed a mask over her head to administer

oxygen to aid her breathing.

But he pulled the wrong lever on the side of the trolley and pure nitrous

oxide flooded her lungs. The anaesthetic, usually administered in small

doses, reduced her heart rate within seconds and she suffered a heart

attack. She was immediately rushed to intensive care and placed on a life

support machine.

But at 7pm on Jan 18 it was agreed that nothing more could be done for her

and the machine was turned off. Najiyah, from Manor Park, east London, had

suffered a seizure before but this is not thought to be connected with the

flu injection. Yesterday her family demanded an investigation into her

death and called for a review of NHS procedures.

Her father Akmul Hussain, 41, a self-employed leather goods importer from

Bangladesh, said: " When I was told it was a mistake I was so full of grief.

The whole family was devastated. In my heart I do feel anger but I realise

that I cannot bring Najiyah back. We want to tell people about what

happened for the others. This should not happen again. "

Najiyah's sister, Aysha, 21, an accountancy student, said: " I just don't

understand how someone can make such a mistake. The NHS does not have a

good record at the moment. They should do something to stop these mistakes.

Najiyah was so funny, so cute. She had just started nursery. The whole

family was so proud of her because she was such a character. "

In a statement Newham Healthcare NHS Trust, offered condolences to her

parents. It said: " The trust has launched an internal investigation. " This

is the fourth time in the past six weeks that the wrong drug or treatment

has been administered in an English NHS hospital.

Three of the cases ended in death. Brighton Health Care Trust launched an

investigation yesterday after a three-year-old boy with suspected

meningitis was given four times the prescribed dose of an anti-viral drug.

The child was not harmed, the hospital said. Last weekend a consultant at

the Royal Sussex County Hospital was suspended after the death of a

patient, who had a drug injected into a vein instead of the spine. An

investigation is under way.

In January, at the Queen's Medical Centre, Nottingham, Wayne Jowett, 18, a

leukaemia patient, died after a drug was injected into his spine instead of

a vein. At the same time, an inquest in Northampton recorded a verdict of

accidental death on a woman who was wrongly injected with the same drug.

, of the Patients' Association, said yesterday: " We cannot

understand how this latest accident happened. The gases are in different

coloured tubes. " Prof Liam son, the Chief Medical Officer, said

procedures were being improved.

He said: " Safer care for patients will be achieved by focusing on designing

better systems. "

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