Seattle Lawsuit Alleges EMS Delay Led To Heart Attack Death
June 3, 2022
The family of a 46-year-old Seattle man who died of a heart attack at home filed a lawsuit against the City of Seattle on March 24, 2022, alleging that the delay in receiving life-saving EMS treatment was due to the man’s address being placed on an outdated blacklist for hostility to first res[...]
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Emergency Department Medical Malpractice Statistics
February 24, 2022
A retrospective study of closed medical professional liability (MPL) claims involving adult patients cared for in emergency departments (ED) and urgent care settings from the Medical Professional Liability Association’s Data Sharing Project database from 2001 through 2015 identified 6,779 closed c[...]
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What Is Patient Safety?
February 19, 2022
Multiple studies have found that 10% to 12% of hospitalized patients experience adverse events, with approximately half of these events considered preventable. The prevalence of preventable adverse events has not been as extensively studied in other health care settings, but a growing body of resear[...]
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Woman In Spain Died After Botched Liposculpture Procedure
January 28, 2022
On December 2, 2021, a 39-year-old woman in Spain underwent a liposculpture procedure under general anesthesia that took five hours. The surgeon reported that everything was fine at the conclusion of the liposculpture procedure except for the loss of a large volume of fluids and blood during the pro[...]
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