Nursing home residents and their loved ones often face unsettling times. The medical care they receive tops the list of such worries. Unfortunately, a new look at nursing home medical care may do little to sooth anyone’s concerns.
When nursing home residents suffer a major illness – such as an infection – they often are sent to hospitals for medical care. Kaiser Health News this month published a report that revealed the alarming dangers when nursing homes make this process a revolving door. (It also last year reported that nursing homes often ignore necessary steps to prevent ...
A leading truck safety organization recently conducted an educational event on unsafe truck brakes. And with good reason, as defective brakes are a leading cause of catastrophic trucking accidents.
The Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance – a nonprofit group of safety groups and law enforcement agencies – conducted its first-ever Brake Safety Symposium in mid-May. According to the CVSA, the goals included educating truck drivers, truck mechanics, and fleet safety directors on proactive brake maintenance, and to ultimately reduce truck accidents caused by unsafe brakes.
Fires that seriously burn or kill surgical patients can and do break out in operating rooms.
This preventable medical error happens more often than most people probably think. Better known surgical errors are wrong site surgery, in which the surgeon operates on the wrong part of the patient’s body, and surgical instruments left behind in a patient. Some estimates show, however, that surgical fires occur about as frequently as either of them.
Because they do occur and because they are preventable, the Food and Drug Administration published guidelines for surgical personnel to ...
The next time you see a commercial tractor-trailer barreling down the highway well above the speed limit, you have plenty of reasons to be cautious. Just as it’s been shown that distracted truckers typically drive carelessly in additional ways, new research effort confirms the same for speeding truckers.
A company that supplies in-cab safety video technology published research that showed distracted truck drivers engage in other dangerous behaviors behind the wheel. It recently announced another new study that reveals truck drivers who exceed the speed limit ignore many other ...
The rate of drug errors for pediatric hospital patients is much higher than for adult hospital patients. There is now a plan for limiting serious medicine mistakes when children are treated in hospital emergency rooms.
In March 2018, the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) outlined the heightened risks young patients in emergency rooms face for suffering from medication errors and guidelines for minimizing them.
Emergency room medical care often requires fast and multi-faceted decisions. Children treated in a hospital ER may be suffering from a variety of existing conditions ...
April is Distracted Driving Awareness Month, a nationwide call to focus on the dangers of drivers who recklessly don’t focus on the road ahead. When it comes to distracted truck drivers, that dangerous behavior apparently is just the tip of the iceberg.
In the most comprehensive look at fatal truck accidents to date, the Large Truck Causation Study pointed to human error as a primary cause. Bad decisions lead to catastrophic truck wrecks. It is not only a bad decision by truckers to use a cell phone while they drive but one that goes against federal regulations. And also one that ...
In their attempts to be more cost efficient and boost their bottom lines, hospitals also may endanger their patients.
Corporations often merge or buy smaller companies. The goal is to gain more customers while streamlining costs. America’s healthcare industry is no different. In St. Louis and other cities, hospital operators have dwindled as healthcare systems merge or purchase other providers.
A new study looked at how hospital mergers and acquisitions affect patient care. It examined patient safety at Harvard-related health facilities across the country, speaking with ...
Common perceptions today are that distracted drivers cause catastrophic accidents and distracted driving is on the rise. New information transitions these assumptions into reality.
The National Highway Traffic and Safety Administration earlier this month released its latest report on distracted drivers. The data come from 2016; the most recent year final numbers are available. And despite increased warnings, the number of fatal crashes caused by distracted drivers continues to be significant.
Number of Fatal Accidents Caused by Distracted Drivers Remains High
In 2016, 9 ...
Problems with electronic health records – both in their design and how healthcare providers use them – can lead to serious medical errors.
Electronic health records have largely replaced patient paper charts. The potential benefits of EHRs are clear: they are easily accessible by multiple professionals simultaneously; they can contain much more information than paper records; they can streamline care.
Now there are warning signs that these digital healthcare records also expose patients to serious and preventable harm.
Software Issues with Electronic Health Records
A new survey reveals the true priorities of the trucking industry, and it’s not your safety.
The administration has blocked or repealed multiple federal truck safety regulations. One such regulation was to equip big rigs with speed limiters. At the same time, new federal data show that in 2016 – the latest year information was available – 35 percent of Missouri deaths in traffic crashes involved speeding drivers.
Speeding Truck Drivers
Tractor-trailer combinations weighing as much as 80,000 pounds driving faster than the highway speed limit take much longer to stop than ...
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