Articles Posted in Medical Resources

It doesn’t necessarily represent the standard of care.  It is the place to begin, not end, your medical research.  But it is a great place to start.   Merck Manual

Many Americans are frustrated by the our health care system but quickly declare it to be the best in the world.  A new study challenges that belief, pointing out that "the U.S. spends twice per capita what other major industrialized countries spend on health care, and costs continue to rise…

The November 2007 Annals of Surgery  has an interesting article on surgical errors.  The abstract of the article says that  the authors "analyzed 444 randomly sampled surgical malpractice claims from four liability insurers. Among 258 claims in which injuries due to error were detected, 52% (n = 133) involved technical…

Yesterday I wrote about tort statistics revealed by the 2006-07 "Annual Report of the Tennessee Judiciary."  Among the statistics I cited was that there were 584 medical malpractices cases filed in the state of Tennessee and a total of 15 medical malpractice trials. To put that in perspective, remember that according…

This post is taken from an email sent out by Janabeth Fleming Taylor at Attorney Medical Services: ICD-9 codes (Think of it as "Diagnosis" Code) http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/icd9.htm The International Classification of Diseases (ICD) is the classification used to code and classify mortality data from death certificates. The International Classification of Diseases,…

Need to go to back to school on the neck and back?  Check out Spine University. Click on the Spine Wizard, select the area of the spine that you are interested in, and read a detailed description of the various procedures that can be used to treat pain in that…

A professional liability insurer has posted this information on fetal monitoring for doctors. The opening paragraph:  "Initially, the fetal monitor was developed for the intrapartum period to better evaluate the status of the fetus during labor. Earlier identification of pending acidosis and hypoxia would alert the obstetric team, leading to…

The Joint Commission on International Patient Safety has a website that it calls "Patient Safety Practices." Here is the introduction to the site:  "Welcome to Patient Safety Practices, a new online resource for health care professionals and the public. Over 900 links to trusted patient safety websites are provided, with…

The American Association of Pediatricians  has issued  "Guidelines and Levels of Care for Pediatric Intensive Care Units."  The abstract: "The practice of pediatric critical care medicine has matured dramatically during the past decade. These guidelines are presented to update the existing guidelines published in 1993. Pediatric critical care services are…

Author of a recent article published  in Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy have taken a hard look at the 1986 article in the New England Journal of Medicine by Karin Nelson and Jonas Ellenberg that led the medical community to sing in chorus that lack of oxygen was rarely a…