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A homeless woman living in a Los Angeles shelter won a $7.5 M settlement for a hospital’s medical negligence that caused her youngest child to suffer severe brain damage during childbirth. Dyrene Loftis was 39 weeks pregnant and living with her two other children in 2012 at the Union Rescue Mission when she started to […]
Homeless mother receives $7.5 M settlement for medical negligence Read More »
Tubing connection mistakes most commonly occur when a hospital employee connects a catheter or tube to a wrong port or device.  Misconnection of tubing used to link patients to medical equipment has the potential to result in serious injury. Medical devices used in hospitals are designed so they have the ability to connect to related tubing and accessories,
A Montgomery County jury has awarded $5.1 million for a woman who suffered severe injuries after a medication error caused her to be injected with a concentrated decongestant instead of a local anesthetic before routine sinus surgery. Even after discovering the medication error during the June 2010 procedure on Jacqueline Ditore, of Hatboro, her doctor
Youman, Pearlman, Sipala win $5.1 M Montgomery Count med-mal verdict Read More »
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has granted a petition today to consider an appeal challenging the constitutionality of the state law which limits legal recoveries against government entities to $500,000. The appeal arose from the highly publicized case of Ashley Zauflik, a student who lost her left leg after she was run over by a bus
PA Supreme Court to hear Tom Kline appeal of municipal liability cap Read More »
Among the latest product recalls announced by the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) are the following: IKEA recalled SMILA-Series children’s wall-mounted lamps due to strangulation hazard; one child death reported ( 23 million units ) Angelcare recalled Repair Movement and Sound Baby Monitors after two deaths due to strangulation (600,000) Shaw Industries recalled carpet due to fire hazard; sold exclusively at Lowe’s (16,300
Recent product recalls:IKEA wall-mounted lamps, baby monitors Read More »
Brain injuries and death can result when nurses or other hospital staff fail to respond in a timely manner to alarms sounding in patient rooms. According to the Joint Commission Sentinel Event Alert database, 98 alarm-related events were reported between January 2008 and June 2012, with dire consequences resulting in almost every instance. Death occurred in 82 percent
Muted or ignored hospital alarms can lead to permanent brain damage Read More »
The number of robot-assisted surgeries in U.S. hospitals has jumped 60 percent in just two years. In 2012, approximately 350,000 robotic surgeries were performed for procedures including hysterectomies, prostate surgery, gallbladder removal and heart valve repairs. Injuries attributed to the da Vinci Robot system include burns or injury to the intestines, ureters, ovaries, bladder or other
Robot-assisted surgery can lead to burns, hemorrhage, or even death Read More »
Infusion pumps are medical devices used in hospitals to deliver IV nutrients, medications, antibiotics, chemotherapy drugs, pain medicine, insulin, patient-controlled analgesia, or PCA. The pumps are designed to administer a certain amount of fluid or medicine over a period of time. Even though they are intended to make patients more comfortable, pump malfunction or medication
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A recent case in Oregon shows just how absurd caps on personal injury verdicts can be. The case in which a jury returned a unanimous $12 million verdict involved a nine-month-old boy who underwent liver surgery at Oregon Health and Science University in 2009. During the procedure the surgeon cut vessels on the left side
The absurdity of personal injury caps – Oregon case provides one example Read More »
A St. Louis jury awarded a family more than $10.8M in damages in a recent medical negligence case that resulted in the death of a young mother of three, according to a news report by St. Louis Today. Shannon Dodson, 34, died after a routine catheterization procedure at The Mercy Heart and Vascular Hospital in 2011. Dodson went
Negligence in cardiac catheterization suit ends in $10.8M verdict Read More »
Winter months bring ice and snow to area roads and highways. Private contractors, PennDOT, and municipal snowplows, salt and sanding trucks will be operating to plow or clear roads. During a blizzard, heavy snowfall or ice storm, a plow operator is under pressure to quickly remove as much snow or ice as possible to make
 The recent Early Sepsis Prophylaxis Study determined that using four clinical goals in emergency rooms reduced the death rate in sepsis patients. The study, by medical staff at North Shore University Hospital and Long Island Jewish Medical Center in New York, listed the sepsis bundle emergency room treatment as: Obtain blood cultures before giving antibiotics
Proper treatment of sepsis in emergency rooms improves survival rate. Read More »
An Allentown, Pennsylvania obstetrician continued with a natural childbirth despite complications which caused a newborn to be deprived of oxygen for more than three minutes. Chloe McCarthy, now four years old, suffered cerebral palsy and other neurological disorders stemming from the birth injury. In August 2009, her mother, Erin McCarthy, was admitted to Lehigh Valley
Birth injury lawsuit results in $4M jury verdict for a Lehigh County family Read More »
A rare but fatal medication error can occur when the cancer drug vincristine is administered improperly. Vincristine is often ordered to treat various types of cancer, including childhood leukemia. It is often administered along with methotrexate. Methotrexate can be given in the spinal column but vincristine can only be administered intravenously, or IV. If vincristine
The right medication was ordered but given the wrong way Read More »
American Honda recently issued a recall of 21,000 of its 2012 and 2013 Honda FourTrax TRX500 Foreman ATV’s. The all-terrain vehicles have steering shafts that can potentially break and cause riders to lose control. The ATV’s were manufactured in the United States and sold at Honda ATV dealerships nationwide from May of 2011 to September
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