Resources To Investigate Your Hospital For Past Complaints of Medical Malpractice

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MEDICAL MALPRACTICE-STATUTE OF LIMITATIONS

How long does someone have to initiate a medical malpractice lawsuit?

"The law requires that a medical malpractice lawsuit be initiated within two years from the date when the injury is first sustained or discovered or in the exercise of reasonable care should have been discovered. The law also requires that it be initiated within three years from the date of the act or omission complained of (CGS § 52-584). (The courts typically refer to the two year period as the statute of limitation and the three year limit as the statute of repose)"  (Coppolo, 2006).

Reference Coppolo, G. , (2006). Medical Malpratice-Statute of Limitations. Retrieved from http://www.cga.ct.gov/2006/rpt/2006-R-0583.htm

Nursing Medical Malpractice Cases

Sample Case Evaluation Reports - Nursing Expert Witness
Please click on the titles below to go to the corresponding sample Case Evaluation Reports. Elderly Nursing Home Patient Develops Urine Infection, Severe Dehydration Untreated and Dies. New! Post–Operative Narcotic Drug Overdoses Causing Respiratory Arrest, Brain Death and Death. Intra-venous site developing thrombophlebitis, and it causing Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy (R.S.D.) Intravenous in arm vein not changed for 3 days, and causes disabling thrombophlebitis (clotting and pain). Nurse fails to follow the doctor's orders and feeds post-operative patient too soon, who then vomits and aspirates (breathes it into her lungs), and develops pneumonia. Confused, demented, sedated, disoriented 80 year old patient was hospitalized for surgery for a broken (fractured) hip, and after surgery was not properly restrained, fell out of bed, and fractured her other hip. Click the Link For More Cases Medical Review Foundation, LLC

Want To Read Actual Medical Malpractice Cases?

Please click on the titles below to go to the corresponding sample Case Evaluation Reports.

• Diabetic Ketoacidosis Inadequately Treated Resulting in Obvious Deterioration and Respiratory Cardiac Arrest. New!
  
• Patient With Pnemonia on a Ventilator Removes Endotraheal Tube; Negligent Reinsertion causes Lack of Oxygen and Death. New!
  
• Head injury patient given anticoagulation (blood thinner) for heart attack concern; develops cerebral hemorrhage, coma, and dies.

• Difficulties Inserting Artery Catheter for Monitoring and Fluids.
  
  
• Ventilator breathing tube removed, vomiting and negligent resuscitation causing death.

• Eighteen Hour Delay For Surgery For Leaking Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm Increased Risk Of Death. New!
  
  
• Baby with Meningitis Misdiagnosed as Bladder Infection, Inadequately Treated, becomes Deaf.
  
• Gun shot wound to the heart with collapsed lung and pericardial tamponade (clots squeezing the heart like a vice), emergency open chest surgery and failure to suture the two holes in the heart.
  
  
• Head injury after a seizure or beating with lethargy assumed to be from the seizure, no CT scan, and sent home with intra-cerebral hemorrhage causing brain death.
  
  
• Elderly patient with severe vomiting forced fed x-ray dye, vomits and chokes in a CT scanner, and delayed and improper rescusitation with coma, and then perforated stomach and surgery from medication errors, and followed by death.
  
  
• AIDS Patient comes to Emergency Room with pneumonia and needs a ventilator. He gets steroids, gets worse and dies.
  
  
• Diabetic foot infection mistreated resulting in gas gangrene and leg amputation.
  
  
• Head injury in an elderly patient taking an anticoagulant (blood thinner), not given antidote, resulting in brain hemorrhage.
  
• Not diagnosed heart attack and developing stroke was claimed.

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Refrain From Making Negative Comments

Bet you wondered how you were supposed to document everything but refrain from entering negative comments about the patient in the medical record.

If a patient is noncompliant please document that but avoid mentioning things like the patient's personality and even body odor. The plaintiff's attorney will use these negative comments to suggest you disliked the patient and were more likely to provide substandard care.

Stein, T. (2000). More patients are naming nurses in malpractice suits. Retrieved from http://www.nurseweek.com/features/00-05/malpract.html

No. 1 way to prevent malpractice suits

Be Honest!

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