Monday, March 5, 2012

Suit: Wrong dosage kills 6-week-old

Fritzie and Cameron Burkett had already lost two children to miscarriages, so when doctors at Advocate Lutheran General Hospital in Park Ridge told them their prematurely born son was going to make it, they named him "Genesis" to mark a new beginning in life.

But just 40 days after tiny Genesis was born last September, he died at the hospital after staff negligently gave him an intravenous bag containing "approximately 60 times the dose of sodium ordered by the physician," the Chicago parents alleged in a lawsuit filed Tuesday in Cook County Circuit Court.

"We don't want any families to go through the trauma we've gone through," the child's father, 28, said as his wife, a …

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