Funerals Planned For Twins Who Died At Texas Hospital
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Funerals Planned For Twins Who Died At Texas Hospital
A young couple is planning funerals for newborn twins who died this week at a Texas hospital where infants received overdoses of the blood thinner heparin.
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(July 11, 2008)—Eric and Erika Garcia of Alice were teenage parents excited about the birth of their twin son and a daughter, but now they’re planning funerals for their children, after the newborns died this week at a Corpus Christi hospital where a pharmacy incorrectly mixed up doses of a common blood thinner heparin.

Officials at Christus Spohn Hospital South say their doctors have found no direct link between the deaths of Keith and Kaylynn Garcia and the heparin overdoses.

The Corpus Christi Caller-Times reported that a doctor told the Nueces County medical examiner that Keith Garcia died of septic infection and complications of prematurity.

Nurses at the hospital discovered Sunday night that several infants in the neonatal intensive care unit received heparin overdoses.

The hospital later confirmed that 14 infants received the overdoses and three others may have just before their release although follow up with those infants showed no ill effects.

Heparin is an anti-clotting drug used to flush intravenous lines.

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Posted by: Anonymous on Jul 11, 2008 at 10:34 PM

My son was born at that Hospital. They delayed his delivery; he has Cerebral Palsy.
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Posted by: Anonymous on Jul 11, 2008 at 03:25 PM

MY PRAYERS ARE WITH THEIR FAMILY.
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Posted by: Ann Location: Temple on Jul 11, 2008 at 01:51 PM

My prayers are with this family. May God give you strength.
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