One deceased after the medication mix-up at Karolinska

It was on August 18 that two patients at Karolinska University Hospital's thoracic department were mistakenly given calcium chloride - instead of potassium chloride, which temporarily stops the heart muscle during surgery.

The operations were routine, but the medication mix-up was discovered after one patient's heart failed to start after the operation, according to Eva Sundman Olofsson, operations manager for intensive care and thoracic surgery at Karolinska.

The patients received continued care with a heart and lung machine in an intensive care unit and then underwent heart transplants in Lund, according to information to DN.

Now the one affected patient, a man in his 50s, has died as a result of complications after the heart transplant, according to sources to DN.