21 days ago by Pat Iyer

This is a great explanation of how the overload that occurs in a nurse’s job can result in distraction and medical errors.

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99 days ago by lawmed

On June 27, 1996, 71-year-old Pearl Cominsky entered Holy Redeemer Hospital in Meadowbrook, Pa., for an elective knee replacement. The surgery progressed normally and the patient was placed in a monitored bed on a telemetry floor post-op where she suffered a devastating cardiovascular event and late ...

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105 days ago by lawmed

In a somewhat odd case out of Louisiana, an appellate court has ruled that a hospital cannot have greater liability for a surgical sponge left in a patient than the surgeon. It is not this ruling which is odd. It is the fact that the plaintiff in the case filed the appeal, asking the court to assign ...

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122 days ago by Pat Iyer

At the annual Academy of Medical Surgical Nursing conference, where I taught a legal preconference, I picked up a flyer created by a clinical nurse specialist. She reported on a project her hospital started to look into the cost and effectiveness of using Heparin to flush central venous access devic ...

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260 days ago by lawmed

On March 26, 2008, Justin Bartle, 26, underwent a resection of a portion of his bowel. The procedure was performed by a colorectal surgeon, Dr. Fred Boehmke, at Sisters of Charity Hospital, in Buffalo, NY. Boehmke was assisted by another surgeon, Dr. William Heyden. A surgical pad was left in Bartle ...

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