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Uploaded and Shared in Youtube by: USFoodandDrugAdmin The Institute for Safe Medication Practices (ISMP) recently cited a report from the ISMP Canada Safety Bulletin about the death of a patient who was accidentally injected with topical epinephrine. The attending surgeon and nurse mistakenly thought the syringe they were using contained lidocaine with epinephrine 1:100,000. ISMP noted an earlier case in which a child died from cardiac arrest after his ear was infiltrated with a syring

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