March 2013

According to the National Center on Elder Abuse (NCEA), sexual abuse in the nursing home is any type of non-consensual sexual contact with a resident, including sexual contact with someone who is incapable of consenting. Sexual abuse includes the following: unwanted touching; all types of…

Don’t cancel the surgery! Talk to your surgeon, and tell him or her about your suspicions. Emphasize that the surgical team, especially the anesthesiologist, must also be aware of the situation. Malignant hyperthermia (MH) is a genetic abnormality that is triggered by certain types of…

In 2007, the Institute of Medicine alleged that the average hospital patient was subjected to one medication error every day. This was before Congress began providing money for a national health information technology infrastructure, which provides a useful baseline to determine how well computerized provider…

Three vehicles, including a Louisville EMS vehicle, were involved in a serious crash on Thursday, February 21, 2013. The accident reportedly occurred at 38thand Broadway, shortly before 4:30 p.m. Accident reports indicate that the Louisville EMS ambulance had its light and sirens on as it…

You may have read about cerebral palsy while you were pregnant, but you never thought it could happen to your baby. After all, it’s caused by prolonged labor or delivery problems, and you didn’t suffer either one. So how did your baby come to suffer…

Wrong. Although headache intensity and frequency are considered major factors in assessing disability after mild traumatic brain injury in Louisville, it has been proven that many ERs do not take a patient’s pain into consideration when treating the condition—leading to possible loss of speech, cognitive…