What every Patient should Know - Anticoagulation Injuries
May 25, 2010
You may have heard that Dennis Quaid filed a lawsuit regarding a mix-up in drugs that were given to his kiddos right after birth. What you may not know is that this exact problem is widespread and has ...
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What every Patient Should Know - Hospitals fail to Adopt zero-defect Systems like other Industries
May 25, 2010
The hospital industry in the US is allowed to keep its inner operations secret. This is unlike any other industry. As a result, US hospitals have little pressure to adopt the same kinds of effective fa...
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What every Patient should Know - Physician Intimidation hurts Patients
May 24, 2010
On July 8, 2008, the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations issued a Sentinel Alert that was sent to all JCAHO hospitals because physician intimidation and bad behavior was still...
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Birth Injuries - Preventing Maternal Death
May 24, 2010
A January 2010 Sentinel Alert published by the Joint Commission finds that hospital errors are causing up to half of pregnancy-related maternal deaths - and the problem is increasing. The alert finds t...
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Birth Injuries - Coordination of Care
May 24, 2010
When a child is severely injured at birth, the ongoing and future healthcare needs are huge. The cost in effort, time, and money is staggering. One of the issues involved is coordination of healthcare ...
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What every Patient should Know - Unsafe Injection Practices
May 24, 2010
Every patient who visits a doctors office, clinic, or hospital deserves
good and safe care. Basic infection
control practices should be understood and followed by all of the staff involved. One such pr...
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Burn Injuries - Should Heparin be Used for its Non-Anti-Coagulation Properties?
May 24, 2010
When severe burn injuries occur, treatment protocols are frequently used. Some are evidence-based but some are not. In some institutions, the drug Heparin is used to aid in healing. A question arises w...
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More on Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm - Endovascular Repair or Surgery?
May 24, 2010
An abdominal aortic aneurysm is a abnormal enlargement of the main artery that takes blood away from the heart and through the abdomen to the kidneys, digestive and reproductive organs, and legs, etc. ...
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Texas Expert Reports - Is it a healthcare liablity claim or not?
May 24, 2010
Since the mini-industry of challenging the required expert reports was crafted by the Texas legislature, each medical malpractice case has undergone the scrutiny of whether the claim was a "healthcare ...
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What every Patient should Know - Oversedation in the Hospital Setting
May 20, 2010
One of the sources of preventable injury and death in the hospitalized patient involves oversedation of the patient with narcotics. This can even happen when the patient is on a pain pump that is desig...
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