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Systemic absorption of FD&C blue dye associated with patient mortality
1Department of Internal Medicine, Wright State University, School Of Medicine, 3640 Colonel Glenn Highway, Dayton, Ohio, USA. sumitgaurmd@hotmail.com
Postgraduate Medical Journal
|November 13, 2003
Abstract:
The addition of FD&C blue dye to enteral feeds is a common practice in hospitals to detect aspiration. However, the degree of systemic absorption and safety of this dye in critically ill patients has not been studied. A patient with sepsis who died after systemic absorption of FD&C blue dye No1 is described.