Indy Hospital Gives Overdoses, Infants Die

Methodist Hospital in Indianapolis says it’s investigating how six premature infants in the hospital received overdoses of a blood thinner. Two of the babies died. The hospital says human error is to blame and it has already taken some corrective measures. The infants received adult doses of Heparin, which is a blood thinner that hospitals routinely give to keep blood clots from clogging intravenous drug lines. An overdose can cause severe internal bleeding.