Medication errors Archives - Med League Expert Witnesses and Consulting

Expert Witness Nurse Retained on an Auto-Brewery Syndrome (ABS) Case

A well-qualified Auto-Brewery Syndrome Nurse Expert Witness was retained on a case where the defendant was charged with driving under the influence of alcohol. ...

Medical Malpractice Claims Due To Deficient Training and Supervision in Healthcare

Medical malpractice claims due to deficient training and supervision in healthcare typically arise when healthcare providers or facilities fail to adequately train and supervise ...

Medical Malpractice Due to Communication Breakdowns in Healthcare System

Medical malpractice claims due to communication breakdowns in Healthcare System are common and can result in serious harm to patients. Communication is a critical ...

Addiction and Substance Abuse Nurse Expert Retained

Addiction and Substance Abuse Nurse Expert is a registered nurse who are specialized in pain management and behavioral psychology. They support patients undergoing therapy ...

Purdue Pharma: The Decision to Scale Back on OxyContin Marketing

Purdue Pharma, the manufacturer of OxyContin, alleged to be the drug that precipitated the current opioid crisis which has killed hundreds of thousands of ...

The Opioid Crisis Across the USA is a Bigger Killer Than Guns or Cars

Addiction to opioid drugs like fentanyl and oxycontin has become a bigger killer than guns or vehicle accidents and the problem is getting worse. ...

Fatalities Caused by Medical Errors

A recent post in the Des Moines Register in Iowa has highlighted something that just doesn’t seem right. Just how many people across the ...

Nurse Practitioner Hospitalist Expert Witness Retained

Nurse Practitioner Hospitalist Expert Witness Retained A well-qualified Med League nurse practitioner hospitalist expert was retained to opine about prescribing of pain medication after ...

AS SEEN ON TV: Prescription Drug Advertisements

AS SEEN ON TV: Prescription Drug Advertisements We’ve all seen the wide variety of prescription drugs advertised on television. They treat well-known conditions such ...

Failure to Rescue Prevention

A thirteen-year-old girl was involved in a car accident which resulted in a ruptured spleen. A CT scan clearly showed the spleen rupture. Her ...

Infusion Therapy (IV) Complications

IV Therapy, Infusion Therapy, infiltration, extravasation Do you have a case involving a patient who developed a serious wound, loss of function, ...

Medication Error Concealed? Finding Hidden Errors

You are an attorney who suspects a patient's care involved a medication error. What do you need to know to investigate this possibility? Concealment of ...

Medication Errors

What’s the true incidence of medication errors? No one really knows. A study of two Australian hospitals shed a little lighter on medication errors ...

IV Tylenol: Is it Really Necessary?

Acetaminophen, the generic name for Tylenol, is showing up in IV solutions as Ofirmev. You are not misreading if you see a medical record ...

Avoiding Medication Errors with Tube Feeding

How to Avoid Medication Errors with Tube Feeding Tube feeding may be needed as a long term way of delivering nutrition at home. Nurses ...

Medication Errors: Unlabeled Medications

The solution cup on this surgical tray is not labeled There are multiples ways medication errors occur: giving the wrong medication at ...

Patient Identification: The Need to be 100% Accurate

Avoiding a Medical Disaster A nurse sees an elderly patient being pushed on a stretcher down the hall. Although she is not assigned to ...

Smart Infusion Pumps: An Answer to Medication Errors?

Patient Safety is Threatened by Medication Errors Infusion pumps can be an important tool in decreasing medication errors. Medication errors pose a ...

Near Fatal Patient-Controlled Analgesia Pump Incident

Amanda Abbiehl and I share a similar story. Both of us were on patient-controlled analgesia (PCA) pumps to manage our pain. However, the difference ...