Elsie Soto says she couldn't move her legs after she had liposuction and fat-transfer surgery last year at a clinic near here. But instead of sending her to a hospital, a nurse took Soto to her own house. Soto says she has no memory of being taken to the hospital two days later — on her mother's insistence — and needed two blood transfusions when she got there.
No sign-out was given on the patient. When nursing staff called me to evaluate, patient was tachypneic and tachycardic. Patient was transferred to CCU with acute coronary syndrome. ED stated that this was an error secondary to being very busy with crowding in ED.
Orthopedic surgeons are much more hesitant to see kids with broken bones than they were a decade ago, suggests new research from California.
Primary Care clinicians in Massachusetts have a valuable new tool to help them spot signs of emotional difficulties in military-connected children and families. The Toolkit for the Well-Child Screening of Military Children is presented on-line as a public service by the Red Sox Foundation and Massachusetts General Hospital’s Home Base Program..
The Baby Boomer generation’s overall health has been on a sharp decline. Australian researchers from Adelaide’s three universities have completed the first stage of a report on the generation born between the end of the Second World War and the mid-1960s.
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