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Half of all Hospital Injections are Done Wrong

The March 29, 2003 British Medical Journal reports that errors are made in nearly half of all hospital injections.

The most common errors involved injecting the medications too quickly and preparing drugs incorrectly by using the wrong dose or dissolving them in the wrong solution.

Study author Nick Barber, of the School of Pharmacy in London, says the speed at which an injection is given can be dangerous if it is done too fast. “This is because there is a load of potent foreign chemical shooting around your body – if it hits the brain or heart [all at once] it can have a marked effect,” he said.

The authors believe the rate of mistakes they discovered is likely to be the same in the rest of Europe and the U.S.

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