Report #2849123

Received Jul 9, 2025

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Overview

Sex: Male
Age: 15 yrs
State: IL
Recovered: Unknown
Vaccinated: Jul 1, 2025
Onset: Jul 1, 2025
Days to onset: 0
Hospital days: —

Vaccines (1)

Type	Name	Manufacturer	Dose	Lot	Route / Site
DTAPIPVHIB	DTAP + IPV + HIB (PENTACEL)	SANOFI PASTEUR	1	UK232AB	IM / LA

Symptoms (2)

No adverse eventProduct administered to patient of inappropriate age

Symptom narrative

While providing catch up immunizations to a 15 year old patient without any previous immunization records, a dose of pentacel was incorrectly ordered by the resident physician and approved by the supervising physician (myself). pentacel is not approved for children 15 years old and it also resulted in a dose of DTaP (incorrect) being given to the patient on the same day that they received a dose of Tdap (which was correct). There were no apparent adverse effects at the time of injection and as of 7/3 when I last checked there were also no apparent adverse symptoms or effects on the patient.

Other medications

none