Archive for October, 2018
Congress Looks at Childbirth Safety
By Zach Christiansen of The Bowling Christiansen Law Firm, A Professional Law Corporation on Tuesday, October 23, 2018. BATON ROUGE, Louisiana. According to NBC News, the U.S. has the highest maternal death rate in the developed world. 700 women die each year due to complications related to their pregnancies. Another 50,000 are seriously injured due to childbirth complications. Many of these deaths could have been prevented with proper medical care. Researchers have found that when women go into labor, doctors may focus heavily on the health of the baby and fail to provide the mother with the same kind of intensive medical support she might need. According to NBC News, approximately 60% of all childbirth-related deaths could have been prevented…
Read MoreHow Computer-Based Records Still Fail to Prevent Hospital Medication Overdoses
By Zach Christiansen of The Bowling Christiansen Law Firm, A Professional Law Corporation on Tuesday, October 23, 2018. NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana. According to Wired, on average, 1 in 15 hospital patients will suffer the consequences of medication errors. These kinds of medical errors cost hospitals $21 billion each year. Wired reports that many hospitals believed that the advent of computer-based medication ordering would improve patient health and reduce the number of errors. After all, a computer system could record a patient’s allergies, and flag any potentially dangerous interactions. Doctors could carefully calibrate dosage using the help of computers. However, Wired recently published an investigation on the ways in which technology can open the doors to new and potentially deadly types…
Read MorePharmacy Errors Not Uncommon in U.S.
By Zach Christiansen of The Bowling Christiansen Law Firm, A Professional Law Corporation on Thursday, October 18, 2018. Medication errorsinjure an estimated 1.5 million people in the United States every year, according to the Journal of Community Hospital Internal Medicine Perspectives. This statistic not only includes mistakes made by health care providers when prescribing mediations, but also mistakes made by pharmacies when dispensing mediations. News reports of pharmacy errors are not uncommon. Most recently, a Minnesota woman made headlines when she was inadvertently provided with 100 milligrams of Brivia, an anti-epileptic medication, instead of the prescribed 10 milligram dosage. Her local pharmacy then refilled the medication three more times before catching its mistake. As a result of unknowingly taking the…
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