Medical Malpractice Blogs

Doctors at a California hospital transplanted a kidney into the wrong patient last month, reports the Los Angeles Times. According to the article, USC University Hospital in Los Angeles, CA shut down its kidney transplant program on January 29 after realizing a hospital error caused doctors to transplant a donor kidney into the wrong patient. [...]

A Colorado pharmacy mistakenly gave a pregnant woman the wrong drug, placing the life of her unborn child at risk, reports the Denver Post. Mareena Silva, 19, went to the Safeway pharmacy in Fort Lupton, CO to pick up a prescription for antibiotics. The pharmacy mixed up Silva’s prescription with that of another woman with [...]

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced today that the agency has approved the first ever application that allows doctors to view medical scan images on mobile devices, Apple Inc.’s iPhone and iPad. Hospital radiology departments or physician’s offices will soon be able to send images from computed tomography (CT), magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), [...]

A new study released today says 22.5% of implantable cardioverter-defibrillators (ICDs) are surgically implanted in patients who do not meet medical guidelines for these devices. An implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD) is a medical device about the size of a cookie implanted in the chest that detects an irregular heartbeat, an arrhythmia, and sends electrical shock to [...]

A new study has found that button batteries, also called disc batteries, lodged in the esophagus of children can do extensive damage within hours, worrying study authors because in an earlier study 22% of physicians said they would not remove such batteries even if lodged in the esophagus. The study entitled A Review of Esophageal [...]