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Children harmed by drug errors in hospitals
04.17.08 A new study published this month in the journal Pediatrics has found that drug mix-ups, accidental overdoses and bad drug reactions harm one out of 15 hospitalized children. These results are from the first scientific test of a new method of detecting these problems.The new monitoring method is a list (...) [ read more ]
28 medical errors that should never happen
04.17.08 1. Surgery on the wrong body part.2. Surgery on the wrong patient.3. Wrong surgical procedure performed on a patient.4. Object left in patient after surgery.5. Death of patient who had been generally healthy during or immediately after surgery for a localized problem.6. (...) [ read more ]
CT Teen Driving Reforms
04.17.08 Governor Jodi Rell’s Teen Driving Task Force has placed a bill before the CT Legislature that would provide tougher penalties for teen drivers caught breaking the law. The Bill has been passed by the House of Representatives and is now before the Senate for review. If passed the laws would (...) [ read more ]
Heparin overdoses in infants
03.25.08 Preventable medical error leads to celebrity activismIn November 2007, Actor Dennis Quaid and his wife Kimberly nearly lost their newborn twins when a nurse erroneously injected the infants with the wrong dose of heparin, an anti-coagulant frequently used in low doses to keep IV lines open. The twins have recovered (...) [ read more ]
10 things your hospital won’t tell you
02.17.07 This article was reported and written by Reshma Kapadia for SmartMoney and published February 23, 2007. It covers the following ten topics:• Errors in treatment have become a serious problem• You may leave sicker than when you came in• Good luck finding the person in charge• Everything is negotiable, even (...) [ read more ]
Hartford Settles Police Officer Crash for $1.3M
01.22.07 Writing for The Connecticut Law Tribune, Scott Bebe reported on Ebony Foreshaw v. Jose Contreras, et al. on January 22, 2007“The city of Hartford has reached a $1.3 million lump-sum settlement with a woman whose car collided with a police cruiser driven by a Hartford police officer responding to a (...) [ read more ]
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