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Fires do occur in hospital operating rooms

While lying on an operating table, a patient that had been administered anesthesia recalls a nurse screaming: “Oh, my God! He’s on fire!” The patient did not imagine what he heard because he actually did suffer second-degree burn injuries to his shoulder, chest, and neck due to a hospital error. Thankfully, this didn’t happen in Kentucky or Ohio, though there may have been similar instances of this occurring here that

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Surgical errors lead to woman’s brain damage

There’s a reason why we in Ohio and Kentucky hold our hospitals to a higher standard of care. We don’t want hospitals to be operated in such a manner that medical blunders can be excused. Following a series of surgical errors, a 69-year-old woman is now suffering severe brain damage due to what occurred during surgery. First, it appears that an improper incision resulted in internal bleeding and infection. And

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A failure to diagnose leads to amputation of student’s arm

A former Ohio University student is claiming that an incorrect diagnosis led to her arm being unnecessarily amputated. The student had three times reported to the medical facility complaining about severe pain, fever, and nausea. Each time she was mistakenly diagnosed with a sore throat, muscle pain, and anxiety when in fact, she was suffering from a flesh-eating bacterium known as necrotizing fasciitis. The challenges the young woman faces in

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Medication errors usually occur during administration
Medication Errors

Medication errors usually occur during administration

Kentucky and Ohio patients may be interested in knowing that most medication errors occur during the administration phase. And a recent study has shown that more than one-third of such errors involved the giving of medication intravenously. Patient safety organizations have stressed that every medical provider should implement a system or protocol that would prevent such errors from occurring to begin with. This would include strategies such as leadership support,

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