Criminal Judgments on Medical Accidents Related to Anesthetic Practice.

Programmable electronic medical systems - related risks and learning from accidents

out being hospitalized. More patients stay at home – or at least outside the reach of health-care providers – for self-treatment, in which they use medical devices, such as dialysis or insulin injector implants. Remote diagnosis and even treatment is already being applied for specific forms of illness, for example cardiac failure problems, in the sense of telemedicine or even telesurgery. Risks...

Patterns of traffic accidents and violations related to drinking and to some medical conditions.

Road Accidents - Medical Aid

ROAD ACCIDENTS MEDICAL AID. By Hans Pacy. (Pp. 136; figs. 30. £1.00). Edinburgh and London: E. & S. Livingstone, 1971. IT is commonplace to observe that the increasing numbers of deaths and disabling injuries due to accidents on our roads are the cause of concern to the public and the profession, and while much has been written on the subject of such injuries, and their treatment, in wellequipp...

Using simulation to address hierarchy-related errors in medical practice.

OBJECTIVE Hierarchy, the unavoidable authority gradients that exist within and between clinical disciplines, can lead to significant patient harm in high-risk situations if not mitigated. High-fidelity simulation is a powerful means of addressing this issue in a reproducible manner, but participant psychological safety must be assured. Our institution experienced a hierarchy-related medication ...

Survey on understanding after anesthetic induction simulation training in medical students' anesthesiology practice

Corresponding author: Mi Ae Jeong, M.D., Ph.D., Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, Hanyang University College of Medicine, 17, Haengdang-dong, Seongdong-gu, Seoul 133-791, Korea. Tel: 82-2-2290-8680, Fax: 82-2-2299-8692, E-mail: [email protected] This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http:// creat...