The estate of the patient claimed he died from a fatal infection developed after a nurse failed to switch out an intravenous tube that was being used to infuse an IV drip after it fell on the floor. The patient died in Dec. 2008.
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The court awarded $600,000 to the estate, according to the report.
Read the Toledo Blade report about the Ohio patient death by infection.
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