Central line contamination

Intravenous news: Keyetv.com report “A Manor woman is accused of putting fecal matter into her 3-year-old daughter’s IV line. Emily McDonald, 23, is charged with a single count of injury to a child”. 

“According to the affidavit, video surveillance was set up in the girl’s room and McDonald was allegedly caught on camera taking fecal matter from her daughter’s soiled diaper and placing it in the cap to a intravenous central line that ran into the girl’s bloodstream”.

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