Emergency Room
It should not be unreasonable to expect that, when a patient seeks medical attention in a hospital emergency room, the patient will be treated efficiently and effectively by the doctors and nurses on staff. However, according to a Harvard study of more than 30,000 randomly selected hospital records, emergency rooms are affected by more instances of medical malpractice than any other area of the hospital.
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Emergency Rooms
Frequently, many emergency rooms are understaffed and not equipped to handle the patients that need their help. While rapid and specific treatment is often essential for a patient in a hospital emergency room, when efficiency becomes hurriedness and effectiveness becomes negligence, it can, and often does, lead to a bad outcome. All too often, emergency room patients are overlooked or mistreated, resulting in serious injuries or death.
Common emergency room errors include:
- Failure to fully evaluate a patient
- Failure to diagnose or detect the symptoms of stroke, heart attack, heat exhaustion, or bacterial infection
- Failure to monitor a patient
- Discharge or release of the patient without identifying or stabilizing his or her condition
- Misreading x-rays, blood tests, lab tests, or other data – or failing to order them all together
- Laboratory errors
- Medication errors
- Surgical errors
- Delayed treatment