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Elderly man dies after liquid diet used in IV
Yomiuri
OSAKA
OSAKA--An 87-year-old bedridden man suffering the aftereffects of a brain hemorrhage died after a serving of his liquid diet was mistakenly fed into a vein via an intravenous drip instead of a feeding tube into his stomach by an assistant nurse of a hospital in Ibaraki, Osaka Prefecture, police said.
The 45-year-old assistant nurse of Yukoukai General Hospital admitted the error, saying that she was too …