New accreditation standards for preeclampsia management
Maternal high blood pressure during pregnancy can harm moms and babies
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Medical malpractice
New accreditation standards require better hospital preparation to handle maternal bleeding around childbirth
Maternal hemorrhaging rates have more than doubled in the past three decades
Houston lawsuit: Informed consent, surgical time-out mishap leads to unwanted sterilization during planned C-Section surgery
Plaintiff alleges that paperwork was inconsistent and OR staff didn't notice because they didn't conduct a mandatory surgical time-out
A matter of life and death: Triage and hospital emergency rooms
Triage nurses are supposed to put people with dangerous, unstable medical conditions at the head of the line, but it doesn't always happen
Hospital, doctors fail to apply c-collar to car wreck patient, leading to quadriplegia
A c-collar protects the neck and cervical spine until a CT scan can be done to show whether there's a dangerous injury
Heparin-induced thrombocytopenia diagnosis, treatment, and medical malpractice
Suspicion alone warrants stopping heparin therapy
Some thoughts for plaintiffs getting ready for deposition in a Texas medical malpractice case
These tips will help plaintiffs give truthful, credible deposition testimony
Houston Court of Appeals rules that medical spa negligence claim isn't subject to medical malpractice tort reform requirements
Key fact was that there was no doctor-patient relationship
Patient falls at nursing home, causing brain bleeding, death
Patient had history of falls at nursing home and medical record identified him as high fall risk
The roles of the guardian ad litem and structured settlement in a Texas medical malpractice case involving a minor
After a case involving a minor settles, there's some additional work to be done before funding