Medical Malpractice

• Baxter Heparin Recall Demonstrates Limitations On FDA's Ability To Adequately Protect Patient Safety

  Rhonda Baker Debevec | March 05, 2008 4:36 PM | 0 CommentsCleveland, OH

  On February 28, 2008, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration issued its most recent Public Health Advisory concerning a popular blood thinner, Heparin, manufactured by Baxter Healthcare Corporation. An unusually high number of severe allergic reactions have been associated with this product when it is administered in high doses over short periods of time - commonly referred to as a bolus. The...

• Baxter Heparin Recall Demonstrates Limitations On FDA's Ability To Adequately Protect Patient Safety(2)

  Rhonda Baker Debevec | March 05, 2008 4:36 PM | 0 CommentsCleveland, OH

  On February 28, 2008, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration issued its most recent Public Health Advisory concerning a popular blood thinner, Heparin, manufactured by Baxter Healthcare Corporation. An unusually high number of severe allergic reactions have been associated with this product when it is administered in high doses over short periods of time - commonly referred to as a bolus. The...

• Baxter Heparin Recall Demonstrates Limitations On FDA's Ability To Adequately Protect Patient Safety(3)

  Rhonda Baker Debevec | March 05, 2008 4:36 PM | 0 CommentsCleveland, OH

  On February 28, 2008, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration issued its most recent Public Health Advisory concerning a popular blood thinner, Heparin, manufactured by Baxter Healthcare Corporation. An unusually high number of severe allergic reactions have been associated with this product when it is administered in high doses over short periods of time - commonly referred to as a bolus. The...

• Gadolinium Based Contrast Agents Pose Risk for Kidney Patients

  Courtney Mills | December 10, 2007 4:19 PM | 0 CommentsCleveland, OH

  Earlier this year the FDA released an alert about gadolinium-based contrast agents, announcing its decision to ask all manufacturers of these agents to place black-box warnings on these contrast agents. Gadolinium-based contrast agents are used by diagnosticians to heighten the image quality of a magnetic resonance image (MRI).The announced black box warning in May of 2007 came as a result of...

• New Brain Center to Open for Children in Cleveland

  Jack Landskroner | July 19, 2007 5:31 PM | 0 CommentsCleveland, OH

  Brain tumors are the leading cause of cancer death in children. More than 2,200 cases of pediatric brain tumors are diagnosed each year. This week Rainbow Babies and Children's Hospital of Cleveland announced it will will use one of its most significant gifts ever "to establish a pediatric brain tumor center, aiming to make the hospital a national research leader."The center, launched Tuesday,...

• Patient Abuse Leads to Probation for University Hospitals of Cleveland

  Jack Landskroner | May 26, 2007 9:35 AM | 0 CommentsCleveland, OH

  The pyschiatric unit of University Hospitals of Cleveland was placed on probation by the Ohio Department of Mental Health after a grand jury indicted Herman Brown, a UH employee since April of this year, on multiple counts of rape, kidnapping, gross sexual imposition and sexual battery. "The hospital on May 18 acknowledged the rape of one patient after Brown's arrest. But the Ohio Department of...

• Failure to Diagnose Skin Cancer

  Paul Grieco | May 24, 2007 3:04 PM | 0 CommentsCleveland, OH

  As summer approaches remember that with increased outside activity comes the risk of skin cancer as a result of too much sun. Failure to diagnose skin cancer can lead too serious health problems and ultimately result in death. Recently a jury in California, found a dermatologist negligent for failing to biopsy a cyst. The patient's cyst later metastasized into cancer resulting in numerous...

• Class Action Settlement Reached in Lawsuit Over Human Tissue Samples

  Jack Landskroner | April 07, 2007 10:41 AM | 0 CommentsCleveland, OH

  Previously I have blogged about the cases we are handing on behalf of recipients of transplanted human tissue stolen from cadavers without authorization from the deceased or consent from their family members. In these cases, the billion dollar a year human tissue industry shortcutted required screening processes which would have revealed that many of the unwitting tissue donors were not viable...

• Nursing Homes Need to be Monitored

  Paul Grieco | March 27, 2007 4:42 PM | 0 CommentsCleveland, OH

  Nursing homes just like hospitals and doctors offices need to be properly monitored in order to prevent injury and death due to negligence. All too often negligence in nursing homes goes undetected and is ignored due to the fact that those that are patients are typically the oldest and sickest and unfortuneately can be ignored. Many states are now starting to inhance their inspections of...

• Rise in c. diff cases is concern

  Justin Madden | March 22, 2007 9:45 AM | 0 CommentsCleveland, OH

  When doctors prescribe antibiotics such as clindamycin, patients need to be alert and concerned about c. diff. When antibiotics overwhelm the bacteria in the colon, a patient can become severely sick and dehydrated, and the colon can suffer. C. diff, if not addressed, can prove fatal. There are occasions where c. diff is the result of medical malpractice.When prescribed powerful anti-biotics,...