Sepsis treatment can save lives and may help prevent severe complications, but it isn’t always effective. Unfortunately, some nursing home residents will die from sepsis, or suffer long-term health problems, even if they get the right treatment promptly after diagnosis. Possible Problems Caused by Sepsis…
Before you can recover damages in a delay in medical care case, you must prove that the injury you suffered was caused by the delay in medical treatment and not the underlying medical condition. Specifically, you must convince the court that it was not your…
When you showed up at the hospital emergency room with a critical medical need, you didn’t ask if they had enough staff to care for you. It was a question you shouldn’t have had to ask because hospitals that are open for business should have…
For many people with cancer, Fluorouracil is a necessary chemotherapy medication. Fluorouracil, also known as 5-FU, is used to treat: Breast cancer Anal, colon, and rectal cancers Gastrointestinal cancers Cervical cancer Bladder cancer Head and neck cancers Skin cancers Other types of cancer 5-FU is…
It’s essential to get the dosage of a chemotherapy treatment right. There is a fine line between providing a patient with enough chemotherapy to treat his cancer effectively and giving him so much chemotherapy that his life is at risk of being poisoned. Everyone on…
No one thinks it will happen to them. Instead, patients go in for radiation treatment and trust that they are receiving the right radiation that was prescribed by their doctors to treat their condition. Unfortunately, radiation mistakes can have dangerous results. Yet, errors such as…