In just one week this past October, truck drivers in the United States and Canada received almost 39,000 citations and warnings for careless driving.
The Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance conducted its 2017 Safe Driver Week October 15-21. Law enforcement throughout North America working the event were on heightened alert for bad truck drivers and passenger vehicle drivers, pulling them over when warranted. Of the 59,193 warnings and citations the police gave that week, 38,878 went to truckers.
This is a particularly significant and appropriate safety event, as driver behavior ...
Medical malpractice lawsuits seek to obtain fair and just compensation for men, women, and children who were seriously hurt by negligent health care. Those suing are the injured patients or, in the case of a fatal medical error, the patients’ surviving relatives.
So what types of doctors are most commonly sued for medical malpractice? What are the outcomes? How do physicians react to medical malpractice lawsuits? A new study goes right to the source to get some answers.
The Medscape Malpractice Report 2017 was recently published online. Medscape is a web-based medical news ...
Being a nurse is a demanding job, usually held by people with a deep and sincere desire to help others. The excessive demands can lead to palpable stress. Unfortunately, the stress can be counterproductive in their call to care for patients by causing nurses to make serious medical errors.
A study published in October in the Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine looked at this issue and found a direct correlation between burned-out nurses and medical mistakes. Researchers conducted surveys with 1,790 nurses in the United States to not only identify the state of nurses’ ...
Apparently, one out of 10 large commercial trucks on the road has dangerously bad breaks, and in general two out of every 10 have some sort of serious violation of safety standards.
2017 Brake Safety Day was held on September 7, conducted by the Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance. The CVSA is a coalition of motor vehicle safety experts and law enforcement officials in the United States and Canada.
CVSA inspectors on that day conducted random roadside inspections of tractor-trailers and commercial motorcoaches. The nearly 7,700 inspections were held in 31 U.S. states as well as in a ...
When it opposes technologies designed to prevent fatal trucking accidents, the trucking industry typically argues that they aren’t cost-effective. Lobbyists often contend the financial costs exceed what would be prevented – in terms of lives, serious injuries, and property.
A respected traffic safety organization put that argument to the test, providing a cost-benefit analysis of several safety systems that could save many lives lost in truck crashes.
Leading Cause of Fatal Trucking Accidents is Human Error
The AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety recently released the ...
According to the National Institute on Drug Abuse, 90 Americans die each day from overdosing on opioids. What role do medical errors play in today’s growing abuse of opioids?
These powerful painkillers are highly addictive. A one-time dosage has the potential to lead to lifelong misuse. That makes their prudent role in pain treatment so vital. An opioid prescription error can be just as deadly as other types of serious medical mistakes, like misdiagnosis or errors during surgery.
Because opioids are so addictive, the common practice is to limit their prescription. The Centers of ...
For the second consecutive year, the number of people killed in motor vehicle accidents in the United States has increased.
According to statistics recently released by the U.S. Department of Transportation, 5.6 percent more people died in catastrophic car and truck crashes in 2016 versus 2015. The only bright spot is this is a smaller jump than between 2014 and 2015, when the rise was 8.4 percent more men, women and children. The nation hasn’t experienced a similar three-year period rise in traffic wreck deaths in more than 50 years.
Nearly 2,000 more people were killed in motor ...
If you have been a victim of a medical error, you’re not alone. A new survey reports that two out of every 10 Americans have suffered an error in medical treatment. And most of the victims weren’t told of the mistake by their caregivers.
Just over 2,500 people were surveyed earlier this year in a patient safety study conducted by the Institute for Healthcare Improvement/National Patient Safety Foundation and a research group at the University of Chicago. The effort was designed to measure the public’s perception of patient safety in the United States as well as document personal ...
What are the reckless truck driver behaviors that can cause fatal truck accidents?
The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration - the agency that oversees commercial trucks and buses - provides safety tips to truckers on its website. These recommendations provide insight into how truckers can cause catastrophic wrecks.
Drivers who exceed the posted speed limits or drive too fast for road, weather or traffic conditions are dangerous. The FMCSA reiterates this, relating that speeding not only can cause crashes with other vehicles but truck rollovers and cargo spills, which can ...
The number of U.S. cases of sepsis, a gravely serious infection, has been relatively flat over recent years. Unfortunately, the number of people in this country killed by this preventable infection is growing.
As many as 1 million Americans are hospitalized for sepsis and at least 210,000 die from sepsis each year, according to estimates. Sepsis is an infection of the blood that attacks tissues and organs. It is almost always life-threatening.
Sepsis Accounts for 15 Percent of Hospital Patient Deaths
According to a new study by researchers at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, sepsis ...
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