Sentences with phrase «caused by hospital»

If you or a loved one has been harmed because of a medication error caused by a hospital, a doctor, a nurse, pharmacy, or another medical professional, you should speak with a Dallas medical malpractice attorney about the particulars of your case.

If the infection was caused by the hospital's failure to provide a clean and sanitary environment, for example, the hospital may be liable.

Some of the most common medical malpractice cases we see are caused by hospital errors, medication errors, and other medical mistakes.

You are welcome to call 203-777-2300 or email our law firm to talk about your medical malpractice injury or a loved one's wrongful death caused by hospital errors.

The majority of the health care costs of AD patients, i.e. 78 - 84 per cent, were caused by hospital care and only a fraction by drug therapy.

The financial burden caused by a hospital birth is a suspect factor in some post-postpartum depression.

Summary: The deaths caused by rare acute condition at planned attended low risk homebirth that might have had a better outcome in hospital are outweighed by the deaths and morbidity due to common acute conditions caused by hospital interventions.

And with an estimated 1 in 10 hospital patients acquiring a nosocomial infection (an infection caused by a hospital stay), it might not be as safe as it sounds.

When considering not just death but also morbidity, much morbidity is caused by hospital induction of low risk women.

Acute conditions caused by hospital birth are discussed here, to allow low risk women to make informed choices as to place of birth.

Not exact matches

It also caused further turmoil in an industry reeling from attempts by new players to attack a notoriously inefficient, intractable web of doctors, hospitals, insurers and pharmaceutical companies.

Animals need hospitals too - mainly to treat injuries caused by humans.

Ruth Fox states: «Detoxification is aided enormously by tranquilizing drugs, so that these patients can now be successfully treated even in the open wards of a general hospital without causing any disruption of the normal routine of the hospital.»

Perhaps that's part of reason that a number of hospitals and universities have been started or sponsored by churches and many organizations with religious roots committed to humanitarian causes.

if the hospital is enlightened, so far as alcoholism is concerned, he will receive medication for acute intoxication and vitamin therapy, to make up for the vitamin deficiency caused by the weeks of «drinking his meals.»

In two years at an El Paso hospital he worked on 2,000 cases involving hand injuries, most of them caused by German mines.

The England all - rounder was arrested on suspicion of causing actual bodily harm following an incident which left another man needing hospital treatment for facial injuries during a night out in Bristol, as reported by BBC Sport.

Beset by breathing difficulties caused by a strep infection that made his tonsils and adenoids swell, the kid was confined to an oxygen tent inside a hospital room in Whitefish, Mont., where Drew and John and the rest of the Bledsoe family (wife Maura and sons Stuart and Henry) make their off - season home.

But (and this is my own rambling here) had something like that happened in a hospital, how many doctors would stop to wonder what could be causing this woman's labor to stall or would they threaten the woman that if she didn't dilate by such and such time, she would need a c - section?

The growth in the number of parents seeking home births and the increase in documentaries about hospital birth trauma is caused by birth rape, not the other way around.

Although tragic, cord prolapse and AFE occur rarely at homebirth, 1/5000 and 1/500, 000 respectively, when balanced with the dozens of acute emergency conditions endangering the health of mother and baby that occur at planned hospital birth caused by intervening in the birth process, the scales tip easily in favor of planned attended homebirth for low risk women.

While they are often recommended by hospital staff and lactation specialists, nipple shields often cause more harm than good.

When he was 7 months old he started having seizures and we took him into hospital and they did brain scans which showed he has infantile spasms epilepsy caused by brain scarring from hypoglycaemia from not feeding properly in his first days of life.

In addition, at this time, the Baby - Friendly Hospital Initiative has produced no data on the safety of newborn fasting and weight loss caused by exclusive colostrum feeding and what degree of weight loss protects a child from brain - threatening complications like hyperbilirubinemia, hypernatremic dehydration and hypoglycemia.

It was estimated that deaths in hospitals by preventable adverse events exceed the amount attributable to the eight leading cause of death in American (CDC, 1999b) and even exceed the number of deaths cause by automobile accidents (43,458), breast cancer (42,297) or AIDS (16,516)(CDC, 1999a).

It's caused by Staphylococcus aureus and Escherichia coli bacteria.1 These bacteria often are carried on the mother's or (hospital) staff's unwashed hands, or in the newborn's mouth.2 The bacteria enter the mother's body through an open, injured area of the nipple, although in some cases there might be no discernible wound.

Whatever you do, don't blame your choice for a HB or the MW, even when it is pretty clear that the HB caused a huge problem («We didn't get to the hospital in time to get him out by c - section» — apparently, «only X minutes from the hospital» wasn't close enough?)

While the fear of the unknown can cause parents to hesitate about giving consent for the screening, Wilkerson implores them to advocate for their babies by making sure it's conducted, either by a nurse in the hospital or a midwife after a home birth.

These hospital - caused deaths of the newborn in the first week likely could have been prevented by the woman having a homebirth with a well - trained attendant.

Germ - free is the way to go to avoid spending on hospitals and medication because of diseases caused by germs.

Cord prolapse definitely has better outcomes when it happens in hospital but when it occurs during labor it is usually caused by the routine of breaking the water.

These deaths are completely preventable by restricting the frequent use of hospital interventions that cause them: inductions and augmentations (currently 50 % of low risk births), forceps & vacuum (5 % of low risk births), rupturing membranes (85 % of low risk births), epidurals (50 % of low risk births), frequent vaginal exams (98 % of low risk births), general anesthesia at cesareans (5 % of low risk births).

The data for hospitals does not exclude deaths caused by congenital abnormalities.

With out - of - hospital birth, parity is a HUGE risk factor for neonatal deaths, and if you break it out by cause, most of the excess is labor complications.

If your child's short stature is caused by a non-endocrine condition, we will coordinate his or her care with other specialists at Floating Hospital or in your community so that the disease can be treated first.

Cerebral palsy is a neurologic disorder treated at Floating Hospital for Children in Boston that is caused by an injury or disruption in the child's developing brain that can affect their body movement, cognition and posture.

Pregnant women are especially prone to dehydration caused by diarrhea, and it can even put them in the hospital.

Sometimes, the peeling of your baby's skin could be caused by other conditions such as eczema or seborrhoeic dermatitis (cradle cap), according to Healthline and Dr Mark Koh Jean Aan of the Paediatric Dermatology Service, KK Women's and Children's Hospital (KKH) for Health Xchange.

Principal researcher on the study, Associate Professor of Epidemiology in Trinity, Dr Lina Zgaga, said: «The key question that this work raises is: «When breastfeeding is so strongly recommended across the board by the medical profession, what causes lower rates of breastfeeding following hospital births?

«We are a step closer to showing that giving formula in the hospital can cause problems by reducing how much women breastfeed later,» says Caroline Chantry, lead author and professor of clinical pediatrics at UC Davis Medical Center.

,» since most stillbirths are caused by congenital abnormalities — and most happen in the hospital where 98 % of babies in the US are born.

At Floating Hospital for Children, our Pediatric Infectious Disease specialists have extensive experience in treating these «deep» infections, which are typically caused by bacteria in our environment like Staphylococcus aureus.

The Inquiry finds that the appalling suffering at Mid-Staffordshire hospital was primarily caused by a «serious failure» on the part of the Trust Board which...

Although 65 % of MRSA bloodstream infections are attributed as being caused by treatment in primary care or for some other reason, the 884 recorded between May 2015 and May 2016 bloodstream infections were recorded in hospital, re-emphasising the need for screening.

Introduced in April 2013, PIP is replacing the disability living allowance and, like its predecessor, it is intended to help with the additional expenses caused by long - term health problems such as transport costs to and from hospital appointments.

Both hospitals fall under the umbrella of the Greater Hudson Valley Health System, which announced the cuts on Monday due to substantial reductions in reimbursement from the federal and state governments and decreases in revenue caused by healthcare reform.

There is a vacuum where there should be full and proper strategy to tackle the rising tide of harm caused by binge - drinking seen in our high - streets and hospitals.

It would be recalled that the management of the Obafemi Awolowo University Teaching Hospital Complex said on Wednesday that laboratory test confirms that the resident doctor's death on Monday at the hospital was caused by LassHospital Complex said on Wednesday that laboratory test confirms that the resident doctor's death on Monday at the hospital was caused by Lasshospital was caused by Lassa fever.

12:37 - The first report found the problem was caused by failure of the hospital trust board.

Shadow Health Secretary Andy Burnham told Daybreak that Labour agreed with the claims made by the Royal College of Nursing this morning, adding that cuts to staffing levels was causing «intense pressure» on hospital wards.