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Articles Tagged With: injuries

  • Daily Safety Call Improves Care at Hospital

    A Maryland hospital found that a highly structured daily safety conference call with key clinicians and administrators can significantly improve patient safety. Attendees report safety issues, receive updates, and can act quickly on concerns.

  • Violence Continues to Threaten Hospital Workers and Patients

    Hospitals and other healthcare facilities struggle daily with the threat of violence from patients and visitors, requiring more effort to identify potentially violent people and take steps to prevent injury.

  • MRI Safety Requires Good Policies, Signage, and Education

    MRIs provide valuable information that can be vital to patient care, but they also are powerful machines that can injure or kill people when proper precautions are not taken. The potential liability from such accidents is significant.

  • CMS Threatens Citations for Workplace Safety Violations

    CMS recently put hospitals on notice about potential penalties regarding workplace safety with a recent memorandum to state survey agency directors. The memorandum focuses on workplace violence.

  • HCW Injuries, Illness Off the Charts in 2020

    Healthcare workers in the United State experienced a more than twofold increase in injury and illness rates in 2020, the first year of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
  • Pediatric Bony Knee Injuries

    Pediatric knee injuries are common and seen frequently in the emergency department. The injuries range from minor to significant, but all have the potential to affect the patient's future participation in athletics — as well as normal childhood, and then adult, activities. The authors comprehensively cover pediatric bony knee injuries, including diagnostic testing, management, and referrals.

  • An Anatomical Review of Trauma to the Mouth and Throat

    Trauma to the mouth and throat is very common. Fortunately, the majority of the injuries are minor, but early and timely recognition of critical, potentially devastating injuries is essential. The authors provide a thorough review highlighting critical injuries and their management.

  • A Look at STRIDE Study Intervention

    The Strategies to Reduce Injuries and Develop Confidence in Elders study produced breakthrough findings that suggest fall prevention among older adults is more challenging than the authors of previous research found.

  • Falls Injure Millions of Americans, Cost $50 Billion Each Year

    Recent studies challenge assumptions about how case managers and other healthcare professionals can reduce fall risk among older patients with comorbidities and recent hospital stays. The key is to focus on fall risk from just before a person is hospitalized to weeks after hospitalization.

  • Incorrect Intubation Results in Brain Damage, $16 Million Award

    This case presents a rare occasion where a defendant care provider — a federally funded hospital — acknowledges and stipulates to liability, rather than challenging liability in the first instance. It is a rare occasion, but not without a logical explanation.