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August 2012

Speak Up and Stay Alive

By David Kulwicki|2019-11-21T16:34:33+00:00August 29th, 2012|Hospital Negligence|

Speak up and stay alive is all about your healthcare and the need for you to be an active participant in your healthcare. I recently met Pat Rullo, an author, speaker and trainer on health care issues and surviving hospital care. Her story is not unique. What is unique about her is that she is [...]

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C. Diff Becoming An Increasingly Deadly Hospital Infection

By David Kulwicki|2016-06-09T17:53:32+00:00August 28th, 2012|Hospital Infection, Hospital Negligence|

Hospital infections remain one of the dark secrets of American hospitals.  Rather than becoming rarer, hospital infections seem to be more common.  The bacteria Clostridium difficile, also called C. diff., has added to this developing danger in the last several years.  USA Today reported that about 350,000 C. diff infections resulted in about 30,000 deaths nationwide in 2010.  C [...]

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Surgical Errors: Mistakes in the O.R.

By David Kulwicki|2022-08-01T21:22:51+00:00August 27th, 2012|Surgical Error|

I came across this pretty astounding surgical error: a Toledo area nurse tossed out a healthy kidney during a transplant surgery.   This kind of error, seemingly unbelievable, raises a number of interesting considerations. The article proclaims that such an error is rare.  I take issue with that.  Surgical errors are all too common.  I [...]

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Hospital Negligence: Tubing Misconnections

By David Kulwicki|2022-02-17T23:35:37+00:00August 15th, 2012|Hospital Negligence|

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) published an alert last month related to hospital negligence: multiple reports of tubing misconnections leading to death or serious injury.  These tubing misconnections arise in a number of contexts: a feeding luer (a tapered connector) erroneously connected to a tracheostomy tube; an epidural catheter mistakenly connected to an IV line; IV [...]

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July 2012

One Cause of Hospital Infections: Nursing Understaffing

By David Kulwicki|2019-03-18T22:03:01+00:00July 31st, 2012|Hospital Infection, Hospital Negligence|

One of the primary functions of a hospital is to provide adequate nursing staffing to monitor and treat patients.  Both for-profit and not-for-profit hospitals have long attempted to cut costs by understaffing and, thereby overworking, their nursing staff.  This cost-cutting (and corner-cutting) practice often has dire consequences for patients.  A recent study points out one less-than-obvious consequence [...]

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Another Example of Delayed Diagnosis of Hospital Infections

By David Kulwicki|2019-04-24T18:00:00+00:00July 12th, 2012|Hospital Infection, Hospital Negligence|

The New York Times reported yesterday about a 12 year-old who died from infection after abnormal test results were ignored in a New York City hospital.  The boy had a known and treatable infection that progressed over a few days to sepsis and shock.  Had the boy's test results been heeded, antibiotics would have undoubtedly saved his life.  [...]

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June 2012

Surgical Errors Before the Operation: Poor Patient Selection

By David Kulwicki|2022-02-17T23:32:25+00:00June 26th, 2012|Surgical Error|

One common type of surgical error occurs before the operation is even scheduled.  Like the Abraham Maslow saying "if you only have a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail," surgeons are sometimes criticized for over-prescribing surgical fixes to medical problems.  Poor patient selection may rise to the level of medical negligence if (a) the patient isn't [...]

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Hospital Negligence: Hospitals More Dangerous on Weekends

By David Kulwicki|2019-11-21T16:16:56+00:00June 15th, 2012|Hospital Negligence|

Ask a medical malpractice lawyer and he or she will tell you, without hesitation, that more hospital negligence occurs on weekends and holidays than during week days.  Now trial lawyers' anecdotal evidence of the hazards associated with weekend and holiday admissions is backed up by recently published medical articles. In 2001, the New England Journal of Medicine published an [...]

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May 2012

Surgical Errors: Fire in the O.R.

By David Kulwicki|2022-02-17T23:31:19+00:00May 17th, 2012|Surgical Error|

There are two types of surgical errors: avoidable ones and "known and accepted complications of the procedure."  Avoidable errors occur when surgeons fail to take proper precautions during a surgery, perform wrong-site surgery or perform a surgery that is not indicated thereby putting the patient at unnecessary risk.  When an avoidable surgical error occurs and harm ensues, there is likely [...]

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April 2012

AARP Recognizes the Dangers of Hospital Negligence

By David Kulwicki|2019-03-18T22:03:13+00:00April 9th, 2012|Hospital Negligence|

In Ohio, hospital negligence remains a common source of medical malpractice claims.  AARP's Bulletin recently published an article about the dangers of hospital admissions, entitled "Hospitals May Be the Worst Place to Stay When You're Sick."  The article notes that little has changed since the Institute of Medicine published "To Err is Human" in 1999, which [...]

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