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Report #2833942

Received Apr 1, 2025

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Overview

Sex
Male
Age
2 yrs
State
TN
Recovered
Not recovered
Vaccinated
Mar 31, 2025
Onset
Mar 31, 2025
Days to onset
0
Hospital days
—

Vaccines (3)

TypeNameManufacturerDoseLotRoute / Site
DTAPHEPBIPDTAP + HEPB + IPV (PEDIARIX)GLAXOSMITHKLINE BIOLOGICALS1PE24LIM / LL
DTAPIPVHIBDTAP + IPV + HIB (PENTACEL)SANOFI PASTEUR1UK107AAIM / RL
PNC20PNEUMO (PREVNAR20)PFIZER\WYETH1HH1326IM / LL

Symptoms (2)

Circumstance or information capable of leading to medication errorWrong product administered

Symptom narrative

Child presented to the health department for vaccines to be UTD per CDC catch-up schedule. Biological Father present with child & sibling. Children were extremely uncooperative & unruly during the entire visit. Father was in a rush to have visit completed by 2:30pm to make a phone call & to leave for another appt. at 4pm. Nurse felt rushed, nervous & frazzled in trying to get the children's vaccines prepared & administered. Both children were receiving the same vaccines during the visit. Nurse placed order of vaccines into the system & proceed to prepare the vaccines checking the vials of name of vaccines & expiration dates. As stated above, the nurse felt rushed by the father & failed to take the time to scan the vaccines prior to administration. Vaccines were administered & visit concluded. After the family had left the nurse began to scan the vaccines & document the required information & noticed that the wrong vaccine had been given. Child received Pentacel instead of the ActHIB vaccine. Nurse only focused on finding ActHIB on the vaccine vial & never noticed it being Pentacel. The child received 2 doses of DTap & IPV at day of visit. Nurse immediately notified her nursing supervisor & the Incident Report process began.

Current illness

Unknown

Medical history

Unknown

Other medications

Unknown

Allergies

NKA

Lab data

N/A