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COPYRIGHT 2002 International Medical News Group
An electronic medical record may have saved the life of one of Dr. Tamara Wetterman Price's patients.
Dr. Price of Moon, Pa., recalls a phone call she got late one night: One of her patients was in the emergency room with an infection that had spread to her bloodstream. The ER staff wanted to know if the woman was allergic to any antibiotics.
Dr. Price struggled to recall, but couldn't. Then she remembered a notation she had made in the patient's electronic chart, and pulled the chart up on her home computer.
The woman was highly allergic to two antibiotics, one of which had previously caused her to go into cardiac arrest. Dr. Price warned against administering either drug, just moments before an ER physician was about to give her the very drug that had caused the earlier...
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