Hospital's Lax PACU Policies Cited
Inside the Morphine Overdose Deaths of Two Boys
SouthCrest Hospital in Tulsa, Okla., violated state and federal laws and ignored accepted standards of practice when it gave two boys lethal overdoses of morphine, officials said. The boys, ages 3 and 6, died eight days apart in October. They were released after seemingly uneventful procedures in the hospital's outpatient surgery center, only to be found unresponsive hours later at home from what the medical examiner concluded were accidental morphine overdoses.