Medication error involving malaria medication results in over 202,000 being awarded

A middle-aged woman was taken to hospital after suffering vertigo and disorientation after taking mefloquine for malaria prophylaxis. A week after commencing the malaria medication, she started suffering from heart palpitations, dizziness and chest discomfort. It was discovered that a medication error had occurred with the woman receiving treatment for active malaria instead of for prophylaxis. 7 months after the incident, the woman also began suffering from blurry vision and focusing difficulty and continued to suffer from memory loss, headaches, confusion and insomnia. The woman sued over the medication error but doctors claim that not all of her symptoms could have been due to the medication error but she was nevertheless awarded $202,871.

Source: summary of medical news story as reported by Medical Malpractice Verdict Set. Exp.2005;21(6):22

Related Disease Topics:

• Malaria

Related Symptom Topics:

• Vertigo
• Disorientation
• Heart palpitations
• Dizziness
• Chest discomfort
• Blurry vision
• Focusing difficulty
• Memory loss
• Headache
• Confusion
• Insomnia

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About: Medication error involving malaria medication results in over 202,000 being awarded

Date: September 2005

Source: Medical Malpractice Verdict Set. Exp.2005;21(6):22

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This summary article refers to the following medical categories:

• Medication error
• Medical mistake
• Medication
• Medication and vertigo
• Medication and disorientation
• Medication and heart palpitations
• Medication and dizziness
• Medication and chest discomfort
• Medication and blurry vision
• Medication and focusing difficulty
• Medication and memory loss
• Medication and headache
• Medication and confusion
• Medication and insomnia
• Medication and malaria
• Medication error and vertigo
• Medication error and disorientation
• Medication error and heart palpitations
• Medication error and dizziness
• Medication error and chest discomfort
• Medication error and blurry vision
• Medication error and focusing difficulty
• Medication error and memory loss
• Medication error and headache
• Medication error and confusion
• Medication error and insomnia
• Medication error and malaria
• Medical mistake and vertigo
• Medical mistake and disorientation
• Medical mistake and heart palpitations
• Medical mistake and dizziness
• Medical mistake and chest discomfort
• Medical mistake and blurry vision
• Medical mistake and focusing difficulty
• Medical mistake and memory loss
• Medical mistake and headache
• Medical mistake and confusion
• Medical mistake and insomnia
• Medical mistake and malaria
• Cause of vertigo
• Cause of disorientation
• Cause of heart palpitations
• Cause of dizziness
• Cause of chest discomfort
• Cause of blurry vision
• Cause of focusing difficulty
• Cause of memory loss
• Cause of headache
• Cause of confusion
• Cause of insomnia
• Cause of malaria

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