What Are The Life Or Death Medical Errors
What Are The Life Or Death Medical Errors
In the past few years, The California Hospital and Medical Associations commissioned study on medical malpractice insurance. The study exposed disgusting results that one out of every twenty patients who sought treatment in hospitals were injured because of medical mismanagement, and one out of every ten patients died as a result.
Similar, a study conducted by a team from Harvard in over fifty hospitals in New York revealed that of the 31,000 hospital records reviewed, nearly 8,000 showed evidence of possible medical injury. According to the Institute of Medicine, there are about 100,000 people die each year from medical misconduct errors. Here are some most common medical injuries, which occur because of doctors or staff negligence:
Birth Injuries
Complications in childbirth can cause injury or death to the baby, the mother, or both, especially when the attending doctor fails to deliver adequate care before or during the delivery. The inadequate care may be through failure to administer blood tests to detect abnormalities, failure to recognize the signs of fetal distress, failure to provide proper prenatal care, failure to recognize the signs of respiratory distress, failure to perform a Caesarian section where it was necessary, hastening the delivery process resulting in breech delivery and broken bones, or failure to properly care for a premature baby. The doctor's negligence could result in the following:
Cerebral palsy (Permanent brain damage to the baby's motor control centers in the brain) which is characterized by motor dysfunction, e.g. spasms and lack of muscular coordination
Erb's palsy or brachial palsy injury to the nerves surrounding the baby's shoulder when it is unable to come out of the birth canal, causing arm paralysis
Facial paralysis ( injury to the baby's facial nerve, usually caused by forceps delivery)
Clavicle fracture (when the baby's clavicle or collarbone breaks; usually happens in breech births)
Make sure to hire a Birth Injury Attorney to put a pressure on Medical Staff and safe your child.
Surgical Injuries
Many medical malpractice injuries happen in the operating room, usually because of poor pre-operative planning and care. Mistakes such as the improper or untimely administration of anesthesia, improper surgical technique, accidentally puncturing or cutting internal organs, operating on the wrong body part or the wrong patient, leaving surgical instruments or materials inside the body, and failing to diagnose and treat post-operative infections can result in the following:
Asphyxia (suffocation or the loss of oxygen to body parts)
Blindness
Spinal cord injuries
Paralysis
Torn or punctured organs
Hypoxic and anoxic brain injuries partial (hypoxic) or total (anoxic) lack of oxygen in the brain
Amputation
Cardiovascular problems
Coma
Infections, Septicemia and Bleeding
Sterile conditions are critical during surgeries in order to prevent infection. Failure to maintain a sterile environment in surgeries has proven to cause infections and/or bleeding, sometimes with fatal results. Infections are also known to be caused during blood transfusions, particularly when the wrong blood type is given in emergency situations. Hospitals are required by law to have infection protocols, and to monitor surgery patients to avoid infections and excessive bleeding.
Misdiagnosesor Failure to Diagnose
There are cases when a person's life depends on what the doctor does or does not do. It is the doctor's responsibility to find out if there is something wrong with the patient, and what that is. To this end, the doctor must order medical tests and closely review the test results to help determine the patient's illness. Wrong diagnosis or the failure to diagnose an illness can sometimes lead to serious diseases, chronic pain, or even death. Some of the most common undiagnosed illnesses are:
Cancer breast cancer, lung cancer, colon cancer, prostate cancer
brain tumors
Ischemia the deprivation of oxygen to parts of the body
Pneumonia
Mesothelioma a type of cancer affecting the abdomen, liver or heart, caused by exposure to asbestos dust
Asbestosis lung disease caused by the inhalation of asbestos particles
The doctor's negligence in examining and ordering tests to make a correct judgment on illnesses can also lead to misdiagnosis of:
Appendicitis
Lyme disease
Heart disease and other cardiac problems
Cervical cancer
Malignant melanomas and skin cancer
All of these above injuries occur because of incorrect dosages, prescription of the wrong medicine, incorrect combinations of medications and wrong prescription of medicine. As a result, a medicine instead of healing the patient, cause severe allergic reactions and sometimes death.
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