Nursing Home Wandering And Elopement
March 23, 2012
Some residents of nursing homes have cognitive impairments such as Alzheimer’s disease that make them more prone to wandering or elopement, both of which can result in life-threatening injuries or even death. Wandering may be defined as straying into unsafe territories. Wandering may be eithe[...]
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Aspirin: The Miracle Drug
March 22, 2012
A Brief History Of Aspirin’s Long History Naturally-occurring compounds containing salicyclic acid (similar to modern-day aspirin (acetylsalicylic acid)) have been around for thousands of years, even being used by the ancient Egyptians and Greeks for pain relief and fever reduction. Syntheti[...]
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Oregon Medical Malpractice Wrongful Birth Verdict
March 20, 2012
On March 9, 2012, an Oregon medical malpractice jury returned a verdict after a ten-day trial in the amount of almost $3 million in favor of the parents of a Down syndrome daughter that the 12-member jury determined would help cover the extra costs of caring for their daughter that the parents c[...]
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California Nursing Home Medical Malpractice Turns Criminal
March 19, 2012
A 77-year-old Alzheimer’s patient, who had been married to her 81-year-old husband for 60 years, was admitted into a California nursing home for care so that she could recover from pneumonia. At the time of her admission to the nursing home, it was known that the woman was prone to chronic[...]
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Pennsylvania Inmate Medical Malpractice Verdict
March 18, 2012
On February 17, 2012, a Pennsylvania medical malpractice jury awarded a former Pennsylvania prison inmate $312,000 for the injuries he sustained as a result of the alleged medical malpractice committed by a for-profit company that had contracted with the State Correctional Institution in Albion, Pe[...]
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Wrongful Birth Claims And Wrongful Life Claims
March 17, 2012
Wrongful birth claims and wrongful life claims are medical malpractice claims arising out of the allegation that the parents were negligently deprived of the opportunity to avoid a pregnancy or to terminate a pregnancy, usually involving a deformed fetus or a fetus with a severe medical conditio[...]
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Are Metal Hip Replacements Safe?
March 15, 2012
The world’s largest artificial joint registry, the National Joint Registry of England and Wales, recommended this month that the use of metal-on-metal hip replacements be stopped, based on a study of the data involving more than 400,000 hip replacements between 2003 and 2011 that included d[...]
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Medical Malpractice Claims Against The VA
March 14, 2012
The U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs (“VA”) provides health care to more than 5 million veterans each year in over 1,000 facilities. As of November, 2010, the VA’s health care system had 153 VA medical centers, 773 community-based outpatient clinics, 135 nursing homes, 260 Vet Ce[...]
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The Impact Of Anesthesia Medical Malpractice On Practitioners
March 13, 2012
In an article published in the March, 2012 issue of the journal Anesthesia & Analgesia, the results of a survey sent to 1,200 randomly selected members of the American Society of Anesthesiologists, of which 659 completed and returned the survey, found that 84% of the respondents had been [...]
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C. Difficile Infections
March 11, 2012
C. difficile (Clostridium difficile) infections remain one of the most serious and common healthcare-associated infections (“HAI”). In recent years, efforts in the U.S. to address and reduce HAIs in hospitals have met with some success, except for C. difficile infections. One reason f[...]
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