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Emergency room staff fails to spot patient's heart attack symptoms
The patient’s estate and family alleged that the ER doctor and hospital nurses failed to timely diagnose and treat an impending heart attack. The plaintiffs claimed the nurses failed to follow protocol by neglecting to test the patient’s cardiac enzymes, perform heart monitoring, and timely notify the physician of her chest pain. The jury awarded about $1.32 million. Licatino v. Christus Health S.E. Tex.
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- Nurse injures patient's sciatic nerve while giving injection
- Cancer patient develops fatal infection after radiation overdose
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- Hospital infection deaths caused by ignorance, neglect
- Common medications can impair the aging brain, study finds
- Health care overhaul may cause emergency room overcrowding
- Overtreatment of terminal illness results in higher medical costs, reduced quality of life
- New diagnostic guidelines for Alzheimer's could lead to earlier treatment
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