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All patients should be asked about any medication, prescribed or over-the-counter, that they are taking, including transdermal patches, says Cindy Vanek, MS, RN, director of emergency and critical care services at Indian River Medical Center in Vero Beach, FL.
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Nearly 27,000 gymnastics-related injuries are treated in EDs each year for children 6 to 17 years old, says a new study based on data obtained from the National Electronic Injury Surveillance System of the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission.
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EDs often fail to manage pain of children undergoing painful procedures, which might mean the procedure can't be performed or the child might suffer needless discomfort, says Steven J. Weisman, MD, an ED physician at Children's Hospital of Wisconsin, Milwaukee.
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It can be a common occurrence for risk managers, but it still makes your heart skip a little when you learn that there is a new claim or lawsuit against your facility. What do you do?
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Everyone knows you should never alter medical records after the fact, right? But if it is so clear to everyone, why do medical malpractice defense attorneys repeat that rule like a mantra, and why do they all have plenty of anecdotes about defendants trying to improve the medical record?
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Sometimes the most effective strategies for those problems that plague every health care facility are not high tech and don't require a highly paid consultant.
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A middle-aged man was taken to the hospital complaining of pain in his lower back and abdomen. The man was given pain medication and a muscle relaxant and discharged. After his pain persisted, the man went to another hospital, where he was given anti-inflammatory medications and discharged. A few days later, the man was taken by ambulance back to the first hospital, where he suffered cardiac arrest and died.
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After an extraordinary 14 years of litigation, a Broward County, FL, jury recently entered a $30 million verdict against a hospital and an obstetrician for damages arising out of the birth of a child with brain damage.
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