After a performance of Carmélites in Buenos Aires in 1965, she was taken ill as a result of an overdose of cortisone administered incorrectly by a doctor.
"If the first two drugs don't work as planned, or if they are administered incorrectly, which has already happened in so many cases . . .
Most use a sequence of drugs that is supposed to provide a painless death, but when it is administered incorrectly it causes agony that amounts to torture.
The odds of the drugs' being administered incorrectly may have been higher than Dr. Chapman anticipated because many lethal injections have been performed by people with little or no medical expertise.
Three of those errors involved medications like insulin, opioids and anticoagulants — all of which have the potential to kill a patient if they're administered incorrectly.
This might be more effective than prescribing ORS to less severe cases, since it is perceived 'compatible' with children, while ORS is perceived a non-compatible western drug and also administered incorrectly by many caregivers.
The logical possibilities to explain inefficacy are that the drugs developed thus far are simply ineffective in humans, that the amyloid hypothesis is not the right model, that the drugs are administered incorrectly (wrong dose, route, or disease stage), or that the drugs are working but the clinical trial complex is unable to detect the signal.
Example(s) of the nature of the infusion pump problems were given by a few studies, which reported that doses could either be administered incorrectly due to being un-calibrated [ 77] or malfunctioning (a nurse commented how she expected the pump to work because it was well tested) [ 61], or not be administered at all due to different pump properties [ 88] or pumps that were not connected [ 78].
Recognize which medications could cause serious harm if administered incorrectly.
Even natural oils have significant medicinal properties and can cause serious health complications when administered incorrectly or to individuals with an intolerance for the plant's compounds.
Many reviewers criticised the continually changing workforce which left those cared for unaware of who they were going to be letting into their homes, while others were criticised for administering medication incorrectly.
