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Most emergency physicians will be sued during their career. Lawsuits can lead to interpersonal difficulties, loss of job satisfaction, and emotional distress. An understanding of the malpractice process and ways to reduce risk can help emergency physicians deal with this ever present threat.
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"Why didn't my grandmother see a neurologist immediately in the ED?" is a question that may arise in the event of a malpractice lawsuit involving stroke care.
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"It's too bad someone didn't give you thrombolytics, because you probably wouldn't be paralyzed now." Whether it's a nurse, doctor, or someone else making that statement to a stroke patient cared for in your ED, you could end up named in a lawsuit.
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FDA Advisory Committee recommends approval of dabigatran, safety of proton pump inhibitors, effectiveness of glucosamine and chondroitin, FDA Actions.
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In this paper, Khairy and colleagues from the Alliance for Adult Research in Congenital Cardiology (AARCC) conducted a multi-center, cross-sectional study on the prevalence of arrhythmias in adult patients who had previously undergone surgical repair of either tetralogy of Fallot or pulmonary atresia with ventricular septal defect.
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In October 2009, the FDA licensed the bivalent human papillomavirus vaccine (HPV2; Cervarix, GlaxoSmithKline) for use in females aged 10 through 25 years.
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Initial association analysis was performed on 205 african-americans with biopsy-proven FSGS and 180 African-American controls.
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