A medication error.
A patient had inadvertently mistaken her son's diflorasone diacetate ointment for gentamicin sulfate ophthalmic ointment and applied it to her eye in error. Although no serious consequences resulted from the instillation of the topical corticosteroid, this incident provides another example of mistaken medication tubes.
Servodidio
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CA
Abramson
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DH
D001623:Betamethasone / Q000031:analogs & derivatives*; D005260:Female; D005839:Gentamicins; D006801:Humans; D008508:Medication Errors; D008875:Middle Aged; D010353:Patient Education as Topic
D005839:Gentamicins; D001623:Betamethasone; C014477:diflorasone