Those who suffer a traumatic brain injury often face severe and chronic healthcare challenges. Included in these now, found in a recent study, is the chance to experience serious cognitive issues at a much more rapid pace than those without a TBI.
Traumatic brain injuries can have many causes, including:
· Blow to the head in a car accident
· Major worksite accident due to safety equipment failure
· Assaulted by another person
Causes of Serious Brain Injuries
According to the Brain Injury Association of America, TBIs are caused by external forces to the head. Non-traumatic brain ...
A nationwide effort to find and uncover dangerous trucks and dangerously fatigued commercial truckers will be held next month. The results of past efforts are alarming.
The Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance is a nonprofit consortium of safety experts and law enforcement officials all concerned with one thing – preventing catastrophic truck crashes. It pursues this goal with education and special events. One annual event – International Roadcheck – is set for May 4-6.
CVSA will conduct random, roadside big rig inspections throughout the United States, Mexico and Canada ...
Misdiagnosis is a common medical error. There are several types of medical misdiagnoses:
· A wrong diagnosis
· A delayed diagnosis
· A missed diagnosis
Serious Consequences of Medical Diagnostic Mistakes
Unfortunately, medical misdiagnoses occur all too frequently, with potentially devastating consequences. According to the Society to Improve Diagnosis in Medicine (SIDM), a nonprofit organization whose mission is to reduce misdiagnoses and the resulting patient harm, diagnostic errors in this country:
· Are responsible for 40,000-80,000 patient deaths per year
· Are at the ...
The need to curb distracted drivers and drivers under the influence of drugs or alcohol is so dire the federal government has just put them on a nationwide “most wanted” poster of sorts.
The National Transportation Safety Board investigates catastrophic aviation accidents and other modes of transportation, such as highway driving. Based on the outcomes of these investigations, the federal agency makes recommendations for avoiding other serious accidents in the future.
Earlier this month the agency released its “Most Wanted List of Transportation Safety Improvements for ...
Most surgical errors are so potentially serious to patients they are classified as “never events” – preventable medical mistakes that should never occur. A study published late last year, however, documents how often serious surgical mistakes are made.
The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) is a federal watchdog agency that seeks to improve the nation’s healthcare system and patient safety. It lists a category of surgical never events, which include:
· Surgery on the wrong body part
· Performing surgery on the wrong patient
· Performing the wrong surgical ...
According to the federal government, in 2019 - the most recent year with finalized data - more than 5,000 people died in crashes with large commercial trucks. It recently identified the most common truck driver actions that caused those deadly wrecks.
The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration oversees this country’s commercial motor vehicle industry. This includes large trucks, such as 18-wheelers. The FMCSA‘s goal is to prevent catastrophic truck crashes through:
· Education
· Regulation
· Enforcing its safety mandates.
Earlier this month the agency conducted its ...
March 14 – 20 was Patient Safety Awareness Week. With some estimates that hundreds of thousands of people die every year in the United States from a preventable medical error, this is an important annual exercise.
A 2013 study of medical errors (“A New, Evidence-based Estimate of Patient Harms Associated with Hospital Care”) concluded that more than 400,000 people die annually from preventable harm they suffered during medical care.
Main Causes of Preventable Harm to Patients
When patients are seriously injured or die from such harm, these incidents are called preventable ...
If there were any questions on whether commercial trucking companies largely favor their bottom lines over public safety, they may have been answered over the last few days.
When a semi-truck hits a car head-on, especially at highway speeds, the results can be catastrophic for the car’s occupants. According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration’s report on car and truck crashes for 2019 (“Overview of Motor Vehicle Crashes in 2019”), 70 percent of the 5,000 people killed in tractor-trailer crashes were occupants of other vehicles.
It’s little wonder why ...
A medical safety organization has issued a warning as to the top medical care technology dangers to watch out for this year.
While technological advancements in the field of medicine have been on balance a valuable asset, there have been drawbacks when relying too heavily on them. Defective medical devices – those improperly manufactured yet sent out to market – can cause serious harm to patients.
For example, a type of cardiac defibrillator recently was recalled after a component was found at risk of breaking, which could lead to the death of the patient in which it was implanted.
The number of pedestrians killed in a motor vehicle accident has climbed dramatically in recent years. According to the Missouri Department of Transportation, last year there were more pedestrians killed in Missouri than ever before. Here’s a detailed look at some of the factors that have caused this spike in fatal pedestrian crashes.
According to the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety, the research arm of the AAA motor club, the number of pedestrian deaths increased 53% between 2009 and 2018.
Citing this rise, the organization in January released online the findings of its ...
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