- Shezad Malik MD JD | March 12, 2012 12:28 PM | Fort Worth, TX
Category:
Miscellaneous
Federal lawsuits against Wright Medical Technology, a manufacturer of metal-on-metal hip-replacement is now being consolidated in Multi district Litigation (MDL). Wright Medical...
- Beth Janicek | June 24, 2011 5:35 PM | San Antonio, TX
Category:
Medical Malpractice
In 2004, the Joint Commission, a Chicago-based group that accredits the nation’s hospitals, unveiled mandatory rules intended to prevent operations on the wrong patient or body part. The...
- Beth Janicek | May 05, 2010 12:17 PM | San Antonio, TX
Category:
Medical Malpractice
The following stories have been in the local news regarding the tragic loss of a little boy’s life after an overdose of morphine from a dental surgery.
Parents Sue over Death of their...
- Beth Janicek | November 06, 2009 10:10 AM | San Antonio, TX
Category:
Medical Malpractice
The Health Department has fined Rhode Island Hospital for $150,000, after a surgical team violated safety policies when it operated on the wrong finger of a patient. This October incident was the...
- Brooks Schuelke | August 26, 2008 2:50 PM | Austin, TX
Category:
Medical Malpractice
We have devoted the month of August to Wrong Site Surgeries. Our series started out by looking at the Universal Protocol, the standard of care on how to avoid wrong site surgeries. The standard was...
- Jeff Rasansky | August 18, 2008 4:07 PM | Dallas, TX
Category:
FDA & Prescription Drugs
Trayslol, a medicine manufactured by Bayer which also goes by the name aprotinin, has been widely used since the 1990s. It was used as a medicine given during heart bypass surgery to reduce...
- Brooks Schuelke | August 14, 2008 8:54 AM | Austin, TX
Category:
Medical Malpractice
Over the last few days we've been looking at the three elements in the standard of care for avoiding wrong-site surgeries. The first element is establishment of a pre-operative verification process....
- Brooks Schuelke | August 13, 2008 8:14 AM | Austin, TX
Category:
Medical Malpractice
Today, we continue looking at the standard of care for avoiding wrong-site surgeries. The first step is to establish a pre-operative verification process.
The second step in the Joint Commission...
- Brooks Schuelke | August 12, 2008 10:14 AM | Austin, TX
Category:
Medical Malpractice
This is the second part of our series on wrong site, wrong side, wrong patient, wrong procedure surgeries. Today we're looking at the history of the standard of care and the first element that each...
- Brooks Schuelke | August 04, 2008 3:27 PM | Austin, TX
Category:
Medical Malpractice
Perhaps there is no act of medical malpractice that makes as little sense as those when the doctor performs a procedure on the wrong site or the wrong side of the body, performs the wrong procedure,...