System Failures and Medical Malpractice – Imagine: A critical care manager accepting a supposedly experienced nurse’s description of her experience and knowledge base gained out an out of state hospital. A critical care manager that supports nurses thinking that they do not need close observation while being precepted. A hospital that has, on staff, surgeons […]
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The discussion in this blog post will continue the discussion of Anatomy of a Chest Pain Case: What Attorneys Must Know to Navigate the Medicine, addressing the different types of Myocardial Infarction, diagnostic testing, and treatment. Please refer to the previous blog post regarding this topic for an introduction to the topic. When a patient […]
I recently reviewed a case where the patient arrested during transport from the Operating Room and due to lack of documentation it was not initially clear whether the patient had been monitored during the transport. I was asked to review the case to determine, essentially, if the standard of care had been breached during transport. […]
Delirium is one of the symptoms of sepsis. The brain has an important role in sepsis. One of the ways is as a target for the pathologic processes involved in sepsis. Sepsis causes brain dysfunction, or sepsis-associated (SAE). Delirium is a major component of SAE. It is associated with a change in cognition or perceptual […]
The National Quality Forum (NQF), an advocacy group focused on developing a national strategy for healthcare quality measurement, identified 28 adverse events in 2002 now commonly referred to as “never events.” Such events are considered preventable and as such should never occur in any healthcare setting. Some examples of never events are decubitus, urinary tract […]
Nobody wants to think that a nurse could be negligent. Generally it is not going to be something that occurred on purpose. The nurse may have been overworked, in a situation for which she was not adequately trained, or she might unfortunately have simply been following orders that she should not have been following. Unfortunately […]