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Doctor's license suspended for giving muscle-paralyzing drug
HURRICANE, W.Va. -- A Hurricane physician's medical license has been suspended for six months after he allegedly administered a muscle-paralyzing drug to a critically ill patient.
The West Virginia Board of Medicine also ordered Dr. Sean DiCristofaro to participate in an educational program on end-of-life care.
DiCristofaro administered the drug Norcuron intravenously to a man with gastrointestinal bleeding at Charleston Area Medical Center's Teays Valley Hospital on Jan. 4, 2007. The patient, who was awaiting a liver transplant, died a short time later.
DiCristofaro told the hospital's complaint committee that he made a mistake.
The Marshall University School of Medicine graduate has been licensed to practice medicine in West Virginia since 1999. He could not be reached for comment Wednesday.
