There are a numerous reasons for an injury to occur from medication, in fact adverse drug reactions are the forth leading cause of the death in the United States. Mistakes can occur when a pharmacist fills the wrong prescription. This can happen because misreads the type of drug prescribed by the doctor or the dosage. In the hospital setting the nurses can misread the doctors orders or improperly combine medication.

In an allergic reaction, the patient's immune system produces a specific reaction each time it encounters the drug or medication. It is important to identify an allergic reaction, because drug allergy can produce a life-threatening condition called anaphylaxis (a condition that develops rapidly and involves several body systems at the same time). If the hospital staff fails to promptly recognize and treat the reaction it could be fatal

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