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Today’s 300th Consecutive Daily Blog Posting For MedicalMalpracticeLawyers.com

Thursday, December 29th, 2011

Today, MedicalMalpracticeLawyers.com is proud to celebrate its 300th consecutive daily blog posting. Over the course of 299 postings, we have explored numerous medical malpractice topics, including states’ medical malpractice laws, states’ statistics regarding medical malpractice claims, results of medical malpractice jury verdicts in various states, and relevant and timely medical information useful to our readers.

Our medical malpractice research over the last 10 months has revealed the constant assault on the rights of medical malpractice victims to receive fair and adequate compensation for their losses that has drastically, unfairly, and indiscriminately reduced the compensation received by them for their permanent, painful, and debilitating injuries and losses.

Our blog has examined the well-financed and highly-organized efforts of the health care industry promoting “tort reform” legislation drafted on its behalf by politically-connected, highly-paid lobbyists who employ public fear tactics (for example, telling patients that their doctors will need to give up their medical practices due to too high medical malpractice insurance premiums or preaching the often-recited but rarely-supported mantra about “frivolous” medical malpractice lawsuits) to wage a war that they inappropriately call ”tort reform” (“reform” implies that something was wrong to begin with). Their high-powered tactics are intended to elevate the financial interests of the very few doctors, hospitals, and other medical care providers who fail to provide the medical care that their peers have established as the bare minimum required level of medical care that should have been provided under the circumstances, over the long-established legal and moral rights of the innocent victims of negligence to be fairly and adequately compensated for their injuries and losses caused solely by the wrongdoing of others.

We have tried to bring to light the processes of certain federal agencies, such as the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), that affect the health of our citizens, such as the federal drug-approval process that can be influenced by political considerations and the financial power held by massive drug manufacturers. We have discussed the objective findings of studies undertaken by independent federal government organizations such as the U.S. Office of Management and Budget (OMB) that were relevant to medical malpractice issues, to help our readers determine for themselves the unbiased, honest information that will help them form their own opinions on medical malpractice issues relevant to their lives.

While our name, MedicalMalpracticeLawyers.com, and our website  are dedicated to helping the innocent victims of medical malpractice be connected with medical malpractice lawyers in their local area throughout the United States who may be able and willing to investigate their possible medical malpractice claims for them and represent them in their medical malpractice case, if appropriate, we have always provided the source of our information and the link to our source in our blogs so that our readers can read for themselves the original source information.

MedicalMalpracticeLawyers.com will continue to seek out and explore interesting and useful medical malpractice information for our future blogs. If you have information or a request for information regarding medical malpractice issues important to you, please contact us with your information or your request so that we can provide the information to our blog readers.

We wish all of you the best of health, happiness, and enjoyment of life for the New Year!

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Nebraska Medical Malpractice Claim For 2-Year-Old’s Heparin Death

Friday, December 2nd, 2011

A 23-month-old child with congenital defects was brought by her parents from Texas to the well-regarded transplant center, the Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha, Nebraska, for major surgery during which her liver, pancreas, and small bowel were transplanted during December, 2009. The child was initially sent home but had to return to the hospital in February, 2010 due to an infection. Her infection affected her kidneys, requiring that she be put on dialysis. The blood thinner heparin was used in her dialysis treatment (heparin is used during surgery and during kidney dialysis to prevent the clotting of blood in IV lines; too much heparin can lead to internal bleeding, which can be fatal).

The young girl’s heparin pump was set incorrectly, causing the child to receive almost ten times the appropriate amount of heparin for five hours. The overdose of heparin caused severe brain bleeding, leading to the little girl’s death two days later.

The surviving parents have filed a medical malpractice claim for their daughter’s  death and their own emotional injuries. Nebraska currently has a $1.75 million cap on medical malpractice damages, which may be challenged by this medical malpractice case.

Heparin Mishaps In Children

Perhaps the best known heparin mishap case involving children occurred in 2007, when actor Dennis Quaid’s twin newborns were given 1,000 times the correct dosage of heparin at Cedars-Sinai Hospital in California, nearly causing their deaths. Quaid helped raise awareness regarding the use of heparin in children, including testifying before Congress and suing the manufacturer of heparin claiming that the packaging was too similar between the adult dosages and pediatric dosages that could lead to administering the wrong dosages of heparin to children.

Prior to the Quaids’ case, three of six premature babies who were overdosed with heparin in a hospital in Indianapolis during September, 2006, died from the consequences of the overdoses. Two years later,  14 neonatal intensive care infants in a Texas hospital were given heparin overdoses, and two of the babies later died. These, and other heparin mishaps in children, led the U.S. Commission in 2008 to report that the packaging of heparin mainly for adult use may lead to problems with its use in pediatric cases. Some hospitals have stopped using heparin in pediatric care due to the risks and the availability of substitutes, while other hospitals have instituted greater safeguards when using heparin.

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If you or a family member have suffered bad consequences due to the use of heparin, you may have a claim for medical malpractice for your injuries. Visit our website or call us toll free (800-295-3959) to be connected with medical malpractice lawyers in your state to help find answers to your medical malpractice questions.

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