Earlier this week, 10TV reporter Bennett Haeberle and the 10 Investigates Team published "Deadly Dosage: The Doctor Husel Chronicles," which provides a fantastic overview of what we know about the Mount Carmel cases thus far. The videos feature LV attorneys Gerry...
Medication Errors
Mount Carmel Releases Investigation Timeline, Identifies Another Victim
Mount Carmel recently released an "investigation timeline" purportedly detailing what they have learned about Dr. William Husel's role in prescribing excessive and potentially fatal doses of Fentanyl. Investigation Timeline: investigation-timeline-feb22.pdf Mount...
Did Dr. Husel Improperly Declare Patients Brain Dead?
Yesterday, put out a press release advising local media that it appears Dr. Husel failed to follow guidelines for determining when a patient is "brain dead". Attorney Gerald Leeseberg stated, based on guidelines from the American...
What is in Mount Carmel’s “Plan of Correction”?
We recently obtained a copy of Mount Carmel's "Plan of Correction," which details, among other things, the following information: How Dr. Husel, the nurses, and pharmacists were able to access such inappropriate doses of pain medication for patients; Mount Carmel's...
Mount Carmel Identifies 7 More Victims, Bringing Total to 34
Yesterday, Mount Carmel announced it has identified seven more patients who recevied potentially lethal doses of fentanyl at the hands of Dr. William Husel. It announced one of these new victims likely recevied a fatal doasge. The other six, however, received amounts...
Was Mount Carmel Tragedy Result of Medication Override?
The ASHP (American Society of Health-System Pharmacists) has published guidelines directed to the prevention of medication errors in hospitals. These were generated in part in response to the seminal 1999 study by the Institute of Medicine, To Err is Human: Building a...
The importance of warning labels on prescription medications
Invokana belongs to a relatively new class of type 2 diabetes drugs called SGLT-2 inhibitors, which helps remove excess blood sugar through urine. The FDA just recently required Invokana to include a warning about a high risk of foot and leg amputations in diabetic...
Medication errors: There is often enough liability to go around
Did you know that a division of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) does nothing but review reports regarding adverse events involving prescription, over-the-counter, and generic drugs? The Division of Medication Error Prevention and Analysis (DMEPA) works...