Sentences with phrase «patient deaths reported»

Of 52,571 eligible patient deaths reported to UNOS, consent for donation was obtained in 73 percent of cases.

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But when it was reported that some of their anesthesia machines were linked to the deaths of a few patients, he lost everything.

An end - of - life protocol pushed by the UK's National Institute For Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) may have resulted in patients being sedated and dehydrated to death before their time, a major story reports today in the Daily Telegraph.

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arrhythmias, cardiac arrest and sudden death in patients receiving an intravenous form of domperidone that has been withdrawn from the market in a number of countries.»

Also, there is no reporting of medical errors in the U.S., so we really don't have the data to draw conclusions, but the Institute of Medicine in 2000 reported that «at least 44,000 and perhaps as many as 98,000 Americans die in hospitals each year as a result of medical errors,» meaning that «deaths due to preventable adverse events in hospitalized patients exceed the deaths attributable to motor vehicle accidents (43,458), breast cancer (42,297) or AIDS (16,516).»

Medical personnel at the Buffalo VA Medical Center failed to try to resuscitate a patient suffering cardiac arrest in late 2016, pronouncing him dead even though they should have tried to save his life, the Department of Veterans Affairs Inspector General's Office said in a devastating report that recommended sweeping improvements in the facility's practices during life - or - death emergencies.

Jeremy Hunt has NHS staff could face a new criminal offence of wilful neglect of patients as one of a series of measures adopted by the Health Secretary from the Francis report into the deaths at Stafford Hospital.

Doctors accused the health secretary of making «political capital» out of patient deaths after briefings on the Keogh report into failures at 14 hospitals focused on 13,000 avoidable deaths despite the report discouraging that view.

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...]

The CQC report into Basildon detailed major concerns about unusually high death rate among patients.

The report — the most - detailed examination of medical marijuana and opioid deaths conducted to date — found that legalizing medical marijuana was associated with lower levels of opioid deaths only in states that had provisions for dispensaries that made medical marijuana easily available to patients.

The National Academies» 2015 report estimated that 10 percent of patient deaths in the U.S. result from these incorrect conclusions — and the corresponding inappropriate treatment.

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).

Despite their strong opposition to brain death, Truog and Shewmon both refuse to acknowledge the possibility that some donors may be in severe pain during organ harvests, even though they acknowledge that some donors did exhibit reactions similar to inadequately anesthetized surgical patients who afterward reported pain and consciousness.

A team at Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago reports that isradipine (brand name DynaCirc), a drug currently prescribed to reduce high blood pressure, may block the death of neurons in patients with advanced cases of Parkinson's and may also be able to prevent the development of the disease.

Fewer deaths were reported among dialysis and kidney transplant patients in 2013, dropping by 28 percent and 40 percent, respectively, since 1996.

Metastatic pancreatic cancer — cancer that has spread from the pancreas to other tissues and is responsible for most patient deaths — changes its metabolism and is «reprogrammed» for optimal malignancy, according to new findings reported Jan. 16 in Nature Genetics.

«There have been many recent reports of patient harm and deaths resulting from inexperienced providers offering services outside of their area of expertise.»

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.

In a study presented at the Society for Maternal - Fetal Medicine's annual meeting, The Pregnancy Meeting ™, in New Orleans, researchers will report that patients delivered at home by midwives had a roughly four times higher risk of neonatal deaths than babies delivered in the hospital by midwives.

Previous studies have found an increase in heart - failure - related death among obese patients and also have reported that increased body fat can cause unfavorable changes in the shape and performance of the heart.

Death rates were 3.7 times higher in women who had a heart attack (8.8 per 1,000 person - years) and 1.8 times higher in women who had ischemic stroke (4.4 per 1,000 person - years) than the comparison patients (2.4 per 1,000 person - years), the authors report.

This past summer, he and his colleagues reported their first findings from the trial: Tranexamic acid reduced bleeding deaths among trauma patients by about 15 percent, a result that could translate to 100,000 lives saved per year worldwide.

Today, WHO reported that there have been 1848 cases so far and 1013 deaths; the real numbers almost certainly exceed that tally because some patients don't seek medical care.

Delayed or deferred stent implantation in patients experiencing the deadliest form of heart attack — ST - segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI)-- failed to reduce death from any cause, hospitalization for heart failure, subsequent heart attacks or the need for a repeat procedure to restore blood flow to the heart, researchers reported at the American College of Cardiology's 65th Annual Scientific Session.

Reports of sudden deaths among patients first appeared in 1977, but psychiatrists have tended to ignore the issue, partly because no alternative therapies exist.

The controversial practice of administering pre-surgery beta - blockers to patients having noncardiac surgery was associated with an increased risk of death in patients with no cardiac risk factors but it was beneficial for patients with three to four risk factors, according to a report published online by JAMA Surgery.

Most important, the use of β - blockers in patients with no cardiac risk factors appears to be associated with a higher risk of death, which has, to our knowledge, not been previously reported,» the study concludes.

In a second study presented at the ESMO 2014 Congress, researchers report that about 20 % of patients with malignant pleural mesothelioma have cancer cells that express a protein called programmed cell - death ligand 1 (PD - L1) that is associated with poorer outcomes.

Of the more than 3000 patients taking Antabuse, the cancer death rate was 34 % lower for the 1177 who stayed on the drug compared with those who stopped taking it, the researchers report today in Nature.

In a new study, a Danish - Czech - U.S. team found the cancer death rate was 34 % lower for patients in a massive cancer registry who stayed on the drug compared with those who started — but stopped — taking it, the researchers reported this week in Nature.

Moreover, the worse the hospital - acquired anemia — or the more blood lost — the higher the risk of death or readmission, even after adjusting for other important factors, UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers reported in a study involving 11,000 patients cared for in six hospitals.

Jan. 19, 2017 — Metastatic pancreatic cancer — cancer that has spread from the pancreas to other tissues and is responsible for most patient deaths — changes its metabolism and is «reprogrammed» for optimal malignancy, according to new findings reported Jan. 16 in Nature Genetics.

Since the advent of PSA screening, the incidence of patients presenting with advanced prostate cancer has declined remarkably and death rates from prostate cancer as reported in the National Cancer Database have declined at the rate of 1 % per year since 1990.56 Other data indicate similar declines in prostate cancer related mortality in the US.

Unfortunately, families of dying patients are often critical of and report dissatisfaction with what they view as highly medicalized deaths.

We applied the average risk of death for continued smoking estimated from studies included in this review that reported survival curves to estimate the number of patients surviving after five years.16 17 We estimated five year survival in quitters at diagnosis by applying the death rate of continuing smokers multiplied by the reciprocal of the multivariate hazard ratio for all cause mortality presented in this review.

We report here the draft genome sequences of two antibiotic - sensitive P. aeruginosa bloodstream infection isolates that were associated with rapid death in nonneutropenic patients.

In the Jupiter trial, a greater percentage of participants taking Crestor developed diabetes during the study; there were also 13 deaths related to gastrointestinal disorders and 18 patients who reported «a confusional state.»

Crestor Linked To Patient Death — Statin Drugs Safety Questioned Astra Zeneca, the maker of cholesterol lowering statin drug Crestor, has confirmed that a patient died of rhabdomyolysis, a potentially fatal muscle wasting disease linked to statin use, but says that the drug «is safe», reportsPatient Death — Statin Drugs Safety Questioned Astra Zeneca, the maker of cholesterol lowering statin drug Crestor, has confirmed that a patient died of rhabdomyolysis, a potentially fatal muscle wasting disease linked to statin use, but says that the drug «is safe», reportspatient died of rhabdomyolysis, a potentially fatal muscle wasting disease linked to statin use, but says that the drug «is safe», reports WebMd.

All of these trials reported that among patients with heart failure — these are patients with heart failure, not even healthy patients — reducing salt consumption increased the risk of death.

You need to admit that cleanly if you expect to convince people like me, who before were convinced (didn't even want to check... like a cancer patient who is too disheartened to even look at the reports about his upcoming death... then find out there is error and cover up and group think and..

A report by the Institute of Medicine estimates that between 44,000 and 98,000 deaths and up to 1 million injuries occur annually as a result of medical malpractice in the U.S., indicating that the fears of these medical patients are often quite valid.

A new report implies that hospital safety indicators (or rather the lack of them) is the main cause of preventable complications which may lead to death for some patients.

The number has been quoted in the Journal of Patient Safety, which reports that the number of people that die from what it calls preventable adverse errors (PAEs) represents a sixth of the national annual death count.

In September 2011, The Boston Globe reported the hospital had two wrongful deaths over the past four years due to failure to respond to patient alarms.

The report of the Vale of Leven Hospital Inquiry has now been published, and has revealed that serious personal and systemic failures contributed to the deaths of 34 patients from Clostridium difficile infection (CDI).

In their latest Just Transparency blog post, Jeffrey Catalano and Eric Asquith address the dangers to patient safety arising from hospitals not fully reporting injuries and deaths potentially caused by medical devices.

The report specifically outlines that patients with underlying mental health issues should be required to undergo a psychiatric assessment by a professional to determine whether they have the capacity to consent to physician - assisted death.

Factual evidence: multiple patients have become infected with c. difficile, prior to and since this patient's death, despite the hospitals strict policy and procedures in handwashing, avoiding cross contamination and the reporting and containment of outbreaks.

Laci sewell Start date: 10/30/2014 End date: 08/01/16 (this is the day the company is removing contract and we were given 90 day notice) Duties Sent out daily hospital census report Assigned doctors a patient list Enter billing charges Death certificates Sent admission and d / c notification to pcp Notified physicians of incomplete records Scheduled doctors for their shifts Run monthly reports Schedule monthly meetings with physicians and administration Attend conference calls and take minutes Schedule orientation for new physicians.