Lethal Dose of Heart Drug Given to Hospital Patient
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DULUTH, Minn. — A lethal dose of the drug often used to execute criminals by injection was accidentally administered to a 61-year-old hospital patient who died, hospital officials said Thursday.
John Ose died Tuesday shortly after receiving the concentrated dose of potassium chloride, a drug that in a more diluted form is used medically to slow a rapid heart beat. Ose, who was a patient at the hospital suffering from an undisclosed ailment, was given the lethal dose through an intravenous drip in his arm.
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