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In a series of 6,199 consecutively monitored medical patients, deaths due to drugs administered in hospitals was recorded in 27 cases (0.44%). Most of the fatalities were attributed to commonly used drugs. Hyperkalemia and pulmonary edema, attributed, respectively, to potassium supplements and parenterally administered fluid therapy, were particularly prominent. Other drug-attributed mechanisms which resulted in death were depression of the central nervous system, superinfection, hemorrhage, cardiorespiratory complications, dehydration and electrolyte depletion, hypoglycemia, anaphylaxis, liver failure, perforated duodenal ulcer, and hypercalcemia.
Samuel Shapiro (Mon,) studied this question.