Division of Administrative Hearings, Florida
Filed: May 01, 2017
The issues are whether the Respondent, a licensed physician, violated section 456.072(1)(bb), Florida Statutes (2013),1/ by mistakenly injecting a one-percent solution of Xylocaine® into an unintended site on a patient’s left hip in advance of performing a right-side trochanteric bursa steroid injection; and, if so, the appropriate penalty.DOH proved physician used local numbing agent on the wrong side before correcting her mistake and proceeding with local numbing and then trochanter bursa sac steriod injection on the correct side. RO: no violation of 456.072(1)(bb).
