Articles Tagged With: infection
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Failure to Diagnose and Treat Infection After Surgery Results in $2.75 Million Award
This case demonstrates the need to carefully monitor patients during the relevant times, particularly during and after surgery, and to investigate abnormal conditions. The primary basis for the medical malpractice liability in this case was the surgeon’s failure to diagnose and timely treat the infection, which escalated and caused severe, irreparable damage and pain to the patient.
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Infectious Disease Alert Updates
Let’s Not Shake on This; The Tricky Business of Treating Early Cocci; On-Site Rapid Detection of Bacteriuria
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Mysterious Syndrome Strikes Children with COVID-19
Although the pandemic of SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) has been relatively benign in children compared to adults, there is growing concern about an emerging syndrome that causes severe, sometimes fatal, outcomes in pediatric patients.
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Two Possible Mechanisms of Disease in COVID-19
COVID-19 infection may be associated with an increased risk of blood clotting and related thrombotic events, but there are insufficient data to support indiscriminately discontinuing medications that play a critical role in the management of chronic cardiovascular disease.
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Guillain-Barré, Miller Fisher Syndrome, and Associated Disorders in Patients with COVID-19
As the COVID-19 pandemic spreads around the world, investigators in multiple countries are reporting patients with myriad cranial and peripheral nerve disorders that have some, but not all, features of Guillain-Barré syndrome.
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The Effect of Coronaviruses on the Central Nervous System
Known coronaviruses can enter the central nervous system by different pathophysiologic mechanisms. Neurological presentations linked to the novel SARS-CoV-2 include encephalopathy, encephalitis, cranial neuropathies, Guillain-Barré syndrome and other neuropathies, and ischemic and hemorrhagic strokes.
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Neurologic Manifestations of Hospitalized Patients with COVID-19 in Wuhan, China
Neurological symptoms and impairments have been found in one-third of hospitalized patients with COVID-19 from countries that have reported these observations so far. This is a rapidly evolving consequence of SARS-CoV-2 infection.
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Regional Collaboration May Improve the Ethical Response to Pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic is raising profound ethical questions, including whether different socioeconomic groups and rural facilities are receiving equitable care and resources as their better-positioned counterparts.
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CMS Moves to Enforce Infection Control in Nursing Homes
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has announced a new emphasis on infection control in nursing homes and has fast-tracked a regulation to enforce COVID-19 reporting.
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Tech-Driven Nursing Intervention Helps Prevent STIs, Improves Care
A technology-enhanced community health nursing intervention proved useful as a method for preventing gonorrhea and chlamydia infections. It also helped patients improve management of pelvic inflammatory disease.