Officials at the Central New York Psychiatric Center in Marcy are probing the March 12
death of a patient who was civilly confined in the hospital's secure unit for sex offenders.
$ 6.3 Million Jury Verdict in
the Death of a Patient Who Died After a Physician Chose Not To Refer the Patient to a Cardiologist
It is very sad that Dr Ubani was able to come to the UK as a Locum GP as his actions resulted in
the death of a patient who desperately needed medical attention.
Not exact matches
The Ebola infection rate and
death toll have been particularly high among health workers,
who are exposed to hundreds
of highly infectious
patients who can pass the virus on through body fluids such as blood and excrement.
Countless stories shared on World AIDS Day by survivors and
patient family members describe Americans
who, ignored by the political class and facing a dearth
of treatment options, simply accepted HIV and AIDS as a
death sentence just three decades ago.
Herper homes in on a relatively new class
of super-powerful (and super expensive) cholesterol - busting drugs called PCSK9 inhibitors (which were just shown to reduce
death from any cause, and particularly heart - related conditions), and how
patients with staggeringly high cholesterol
who would benefit from the treatments had to wrangle with insurance companies that refused to cover them over their high prices.
'' [It] minimizes the need for a full fledge [d] investigation to determine if some
of these
deaths could have been prevented, or whether the island's medical facilities were negligent in terms
of providing treatment to their most vulnerable
patients,» writes Yordán,
who is from Puerto Rico.
Readers
of SHS may recall the terrible San Luis Obispo case
of a transplant surgeon named Hootan Roozrokh
who is charged felonious wrongdoing in trying to kill a profoundly disabled
patient so his organs could be procured under a «heart
death» protocol.
His research concluded that only those with a high risk
of death actually benefited from heart transplants, more than 80 \ %
of donor hearts going to
patients who were likely to live for longer without a transplant.
In the practice
of critical care medicine, we sometimes end up caring for
patients who have suffered severe illness or injury and are deteriorating toward brain
death.
Riding the publicity wave
of Brittany Maynard, a young woman
who suffered much and became the human face
of the
death - with - dignity movement, they have redefined compassion as respect for a
patient's autonomous determination
of the time, location, and method
of death.
«I have discovered that the practice here in Westphalia is to compile lists
of such
patients who are to be removed elsewhere as «unproductive citizens,» and after a period
of time put to
death.
He directs it chiefly at medical specialists
who look upon disease and
death as enemies to be conquered and
who carry attempts to overcome them to the point
of giving the
patient false hopes
of recovery, disregarding his suffering in futile efforts to score a medical triumph.
Besides George Delury,
who killed his wife, we may mention Timothy E. Quill,
who prescribed lethal pills for his
patient, and Andrew Solomon,
who participated in the
death of his mother.
With respect to their attitudes,
of the 319 doctors
who responded, 89 \ % consider it ethical to withhold ANH from PVS
patients; 65 \ % consider it ethical to transplant vital organs from PVS
patients; and 20 \ % consider it ethical to administer lethal injections to hasten the
death of such
patients.
I think most
of our
patients would reach the stage
of acceptance if it were not for the members
of the helping professions, especially the physicians,
who can not accept the
death of a
patient... the second and quantitatively more frequent problem is the immediate family which «hangs on» and can not «let go.»
The chaplain will accept the challenge Dr. Kübler - Ross has forcefully given him to stop and listen to the dying, but he will further face the prospect
of ministering to
patients who are not able to speak peacefully and calmly about
death.
Kevorkian either didn't know or didn't care that ALS
patients do not suffocate or choke to
death when they receive proper medical care from doctors
who know how to ameliorate the symptoms
of the disease.
In Ontario today, doctors
who decline to euthanize their
patients are required to provide what is termed, in the Orwellian vocabulary
of the culture
of death, an «effective referral»: They are obliged, on pain
of losing their license to practice, to send a troubled
patient to a doctor
of lighter conscience
who will kill that
patient.
Borrowing from the new secular ethic
of «compassionate
death,» even the Catholic Health Association now publishes articles encouraging «futility policies» for hospital ethics committees that enable them to force the withdrawal
of treatment from
patients or families
who do not make the «right» choice.
A 2016 meta - analysis showed that Kona coffee did reduced occurrence
of death in
patients who have had a myocardial infarction.
In response to reports that women may be using this unapproved drug, to increase milk production (lactation), the
WHO and FDA are warning breastfeeding women
of safety concerns as «there have been several published reports and case studies
of cardiac arrhythmias, cardiac arrest and sudden
death in
patients receiving an intravenous form
of domperidone that has been withdrawn from the market in a number
of countries.»
During investigations by the Healthcare Commission the trust stated that there were no
deaths caused by the Clostridium difficile outbreaks, the investigation concluded that «
of the 345
patients who died, approximately 90
deaths where Clostridium difficile was definitely or most probably the main cause
of death.»
-- The attending physician is the person
who first deems the
patient terminal; he / she is the same person
who declares the
patient is capable, acting voluntarily and making an informed decision; he / she is the same person
who writes the prescription or dispenses the medications directly; and he / she is the same person to sign the
patient's
death certificate; and he / she is required to lie on the
death certificate by writing the terminal illness as the cause
of death, not the lethal drugs -LRB-!).
DUNKIRK - The Post-Journal is reporting that the ambulance driver
who was operating an ambulance when it veered off the road and crashed — resulting in the
death of a
patient — has not received any criminal charges related to the incident, though the... [Read more...]
When a nurse loses a
patient it stays with her forever; but for the CEOs,
who make life and
death decisions with the stroke
of a pen, it only lasts until their million dollar severance check arrives in the mail.
The National Confidential Enquiry into
Patient Outcome and
Death (NCEPOD) investigated the care given to 820
patients over 80 years
of age,
who died within 30 days
of surgery being performed on them.
Similarly, Balboni wrote, the cancer
patients who relied on private, unspoken religious beliefs to manage their illness were «nearly three times more likely to receive intensive life - prolonging care near
death and less likely to enter hospice during the final weeks
of life» than those without a pronounced religious sense.
One
of those early
patients was a young girl named Emily Whitehead
who arrived in June's clinic, «on
death's door,» with an aggressive form
of relapsed childhood leukemia.
The goal
of this second study was to examine the effect
of drug compliance on
death rates in
patients who had had heart attacks.
In the new study,
patients receiving angioplasty with the new stents had a 47 percent higher risk
of one
of the outcomes identified as a primary endpoint in the study:
death, heart attack and subsequent procedure to clear blocked arteries, as compared to
patients who received bypass.
Patients who received accelerated RT experienced fewer grade 3 toxicities (10 reported for conventional RT vs. six for hypofractionated RT) and a lower rate
of death from hypoxia (two for conventional RT vs. one for hypofractionated RT).
A new type
of cancer drug developed at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, but not yet tested in clinical trials may have triggered the
deaths of three
patients who were undergoing an alternative cancer treatment by a nonmedical practitioner in Germany.
Over a median follow - up
of nearly eight years,
patients who were current smokers had a 40 % increased risk
of cancer relapse, as well as more than 2 - times increased risks
of cancer spread and cancer - related
death, compared with
patients who were never smokers.
Patients undergoing surgery for a hip fracture were older and had more medical conditions than patients who underwent an elective total hip replacement, factors that may contribute to the higher risk of in - hospital death and major postoperative complications experienced by hip fracture surgery patients, according to a study in the September 15 issue
Patients undergoing surgery for a hip fracture were older and had more medical conditions than
patients who underwent an elective total hip replacement, factors that may contribute to the higher risk of in - hospital death and major postoperative complications experienced by hip fracture surgery patients, according to a study in the September 15 issue
patients who underwent an elective total hip replacement, factors that may contribute to the higher risk
of in - hospital
death and major postoperative complications experienced by hip fracture surgery
patients, according to a study in the September 15 issue
patients, according to a study in the September 15 issue
of JAMA.
NSCLC is responsible for the most cancer - specific
deaths globally, and many
of these
deaths are associated with the high percentage
of patients who present with stage III cancer upon diagnosis.
Furthermore, the levels
of Runx2 expression among a larger group
of 351 newly diagnosed multiple myeloma
patients were significantly higher in
patients who had a high risk
of early disease - related
death, as compared with lower - risk
patients.
«Use
of steps one to three triage criteria is not sufficient for identifying intracranial hemorrhage and
death or neurosurgery for older
patients who suffer head trauma,» said the lead author
of the study, Daniel K. Nishijima, MD, MAS,
of the University
of California Davis School
of Medicine in Sacramento, Calif. «While we wait for other studies to confirm our research, we strongly urge
patients to make their medication history available and known to their families and EMS providers, especially for situations that may arise where they can not speak for themselves.
In it, critical care specialist Charles Natanson
of the Clinical Center at the U.S. National Institutes
of Health in Bethesda, Maryland, argued that blood substitutes, no matter how they're designed, raise the risk
of death by almost 30 % and nearly triple the rate
of heart attacks in the people
who receive them in clinical trials, mainly surgery and trauma
patients.
This was particularly true for movement —
patients who were not moving after injury had a higher risk
of death.
A leading cause
of post-bone marrow transplant
deaths, chronic GVHD affects approximately one - half
of patients who receive conventional treatments.
The method could prolong survival for organ recipients and reduce the
death toll among the tens
of thousands
of patients globally
who need donor livers today.
«We need systems
of care that better identify these
patients who are at increased risk because getting that follow - up can significantly reduce their risks
of heart attack or premature
death.»
In
patients who have sepsis, for example, the risk
of death goes up by 6 to 8 percent for every hour that antibiotics are delayed, so it's critically important to act quickly.
Two classes
of blood pressure medications, angiotensin - converting enzyme inhibitors (ACEIs) and angiotensin II receptor blockers (ARBs), are associated with a 16 % lower risk
of strokes, heart attacks and
death in
patients with end - stage renal disease
who are undergoing peritoneal dialysis, a new study in the journal, Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation, reports.
To test their theory, the researchers examined Del - 1 expression in brain tissue from people
who had died from MS.. In MS
patients with chronic active MS lesions, Del - 1 was reduced compared to both healthy brain tissue and brain tissue from MS
patients who were in remission at the time
of their
death.
Osteoarthritis
patients who received a steroid injection in the hip had a significantly greater incidence
of bone
death and collapse compared with control groups, according to new research presented today at the annual meeting
of the Radiological Society
of North America (RSNA).
«Our findings provide evidence that the results
of earlier studies — that
patients who had normal weights were at higher risk
of death — may have been related to unintended weight loss as opposed to a protective effect
of being overweight or obese.
In the new study,
patients with a higher quality
of life during their final days included those
who avoided hospitalizations and stays in the intensive care unit (ICU), were not worried about
death, prayed or meditated, received care at home, did not use a feeding tube, were visited by a pastor in the hospital or clinic, did not undergo chemotherapy in the final week
of life, and felt an alliance with their oncologist regarding therapy.
«Our study is the first to focus on weight change around RA diagnosis and risk
of death, rather than weight change in
patients who had RA for many years, as in previous studies,» said Dr. Sparks.