The bones in newborn infants consist partly of cartilage, allowing the baby’s support structure to remain flexible (to a degree). The flexibility of infant bones protects them from injury, but that doesn’t mean fractures never occur. Many infants suffer bone breaks...
Human mistakes occur in every line of work, including the medical profession. Nurses, pharmacists and doctors alike who have spent years in school and caring for patients can still make mistakes, forget something or suffer their own medical issue that affects the care...
Emergency rooms play a critical role in modern healthcare in the United States. When physician's offices are not open or someone has a medical issue that requires immediate attention and likely hospitalization, the patient can go to the emergency room. The workers...
In the medical setting, diagnostic errors can be very detrimental to a patient's health. These errors tend to come in three different ways. The diagnosis can be missed entirely, the person can get the wrong diagnosis from their doctor, or that diagnosis may be...
If you need to need non-emergency surgery or some other kind of medical procedure, you may be considering having it done over the holidays when you’re going to have some time off. However, you may have read – or been warned by friends and family – that the holidays...
Being a surgical patient is tough. Once you’re on that gurney and under anesthesia, you’re literally putting your life in someone else’s hands. How would you feel, then, if you found out that your doctor took time away from surgery to do a little dance and film some...
People being cared for in a long-term care facility count on the staff members to help them with various facets of life. Some of these individuals aren’t fully mobile, so they can’t reposition themselves as needed. Lack of movement and having to be manually...
When people get sick, they go to the hospital for treatment. Unfortunately, while some patients can get better by visiting the hospital and other medical care facilities, some become sicker there. Hospital-acquired infections (HAIs) are nosocomial infections that...
Missing the signs of a stroke could lead to a patient suffering serious injuries or passing away. In most cases, there are obvious signs that a stroke is occurring, whether those are outward signs or signs that come back with medical tests. Anyone who goes into a...
When you visit the doctor’s office, you likely have your blood pressure checked by a nurse or other clinician before you see your physician. It’s one of the basic measurements of a person’s health. You assume that the person taking your blood pressure knows what...
