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| | AORN Online: Press Office: AORN on Dateline NBC (Site not responding. Last check: ) |
 | | The national news program, Dateline NBC, aired an hour-long show on January 1, 2002, entitled, "A Lesson from Ben", concerning medication safety and its impact on surgical patients. |
 | | Using the Institute of Medicine report, To Err is Human, as a springboard, the show focuses on a 1995 incident in which 7-year-old Ben Kolb, received the wrong medication during a routine elective ear surgery, and died. |
 | | Dateline NBC contacted AORN's Public Relations Department in February, 2001, and requested AORN-generated information regarding safe medication practices in the OR. |
| www.aorn.org /Press/dateline.htm (540 words) |
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