more info? why give a preemie anesthetic if there were no defects or injuries causing pain? if the doctors intended to save him he would have been in an incubator not his mother's arms. My heart goes out to this poor woman and if the facts are as stated and there is evidence there needs to be a murder charge not a civil suit.
All the info I got is at the link of the google cache. It was also reported in People mag April 25 according to an email I got but I guess that issue isn't available online yet cause it didn't come up in the search at the People site.
You are correct, more info is needed. I was a neonatal intensive care nurse for 10 years. Fentanyl was the drug of choice, short of the paralyzing agent Pavulon, to relax a baby so they would not fight the ventilator.
Fighting the vent uses up metabolic and respiratory reserves that a preemie just does not have. Fentanyl reduces the vent settings and need for oxygen, thus reducing barotrauma and other damage done by the vent and the high oxygen flow.
It sounds like a tragic error.....written by a doctor and likely administered by a nurse who also should have known that the dose was too high.