Posted on May. 3rd, 2012 | in Brain Injuries, News
The United States Supreme Court declined to hear a case involving a former soldier who suffered severe brain damage due to a surgical error that occurred during a routine procedure performed at a military hospital. The soldier was admitted for appendicitis. However, when he stopped breathing while an appendectomy was being performed the staff inserted… read more
Posted on May. 1st, 2012 | in Medication Errors, News
A recurrent problem has occurred in a Pennsylvania hospital resulting in patients being administered too much medication. Such a medication error led to two patients receiving approximately ten times more medication than was prescribed. Only a few months ago the same facility was suspected of providing three patients an overdose of pain medication while using… read more
Posted on Apr. 26th, 2012 | in News, Surgical Errors
Most patients trust that careless mistakes will not be made by their medical providers while they are on the surgical table. Happily, patients in Pittsburgh are more fortunate in this regards than certain other areas in the nation. Just recently, a surgical error that took place in a southern state may have resulted in ongoing… read more
Posted on Apr. 24th, 2012 | in Medication Errors, News
We’ve written before about how so many medical and medication errors occur due to miscommunications between staff members. Another important part of communication often overlooked is communication between medical staff and the patient. Especially in large cities like Pittsburgh, emergency room staff will often be placed in the position of treating patients that do not… read more
Posted on Apr. 19th, 2012 | in Failure to Diagnose, News
A nationally renown treatment center is being sued for the death of a 20-year-old patient while he was under treatment for bulimia and alcoholism. When complications arose in his treatment, the facility transferred him to another center, where he suffered from cardiac arrest and died. The boy was transferred from an Arizona sober living home to the Morningside Recovery… read more
Posted on Apr. 18th, 2012 | in Medication Errors, News
Seven hospitals in Massachusetts have finally come to believe something that lawyers may say is pretty obvious: It is better if doctors and hospitals admit their medical mistakes up front to patients and try to pay them fair compensation for injuries they have caused. Under a new program they just adopted, the Massachusetts hospitals are encouraging… read more
Posted on Apr. 16th, 2012 | in News, Surgical Errors
Surgeries performed that result in infection for patients kills approximately 8,000 patients every year. And because hospitals in Pennsylvania and the whole United States are reluctant to report such surgical errors recommendations for public reporting standards of such hospital infections have been made. Just about every state has its own requirements as to what should… read more
Posted on Apr. 12th, 2012 | in Brain Injuries, News
Something as simple as a misplaced tube during surgery resulted in the death of a woman due to brain injury. It appears that an anesthesiologist did not note that the oxygen tube had moved during the surgical procedure and the woman was deprived of oxygen while the anesthesia was administered. Though this happened in a… read more
Posted on Apr. 9th, 2012 | in News, Surgical Errors
To put things in perspective, approximately 100,000 deaths occur every year due to medical mistakes. Such errors occur in Pennsylvania and across the country. What we’ve discovered is that even the best trained of surgeons can have lapses and make surgical errors. For example, one talented surgeon operated on the wrong side of the brain… read more
Posted on Apr. 5th, 2012 | in Medication Errors, News
Pennsylvania’s United States Senator, Bob Casey, has attempted to introduce legislation that would address a perceived drug shortage in the United States as it has felt that the nation is dealing with one of the worst drug shortages in 40-years. Such a shortage can also have unanticipated consequences that have resulted in a number of… read more
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