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NYC hospital makes changes after boy's death from septic shock

Posted: July 19, 2012 |   Comments

NEW YORK (AP) - A New York City hospital is making changes to its procedures following the death by septic shock of a 12-year-old boy.

NYU Langone Medical Center said Wednesday emergency doctors and nurses will be "immediately notified of certain lab results suggestive of serious infection."

The patient, Rory Staunton, died April 1, three days after he was sent home with fever and a rapid heart rate.

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