patient safety

Eye drops contaminated with a drug-resistant bacteria may have caused death, blindness and eyeball removals in the US, according to officials. Some 68 patients in 16 states, spanning from New York and Washington to Texas and Florida, have been identified with a rare strain of pseudomonas...

Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust has apologised and said the incident at Redditch’s Alexandra Hospital, first reported by the BBC, was “exceptionally rare”. The error happened during a seven-hour abdominal procedure on Nov 23, it is understood. The six-inch metal forceps had to be...

Link Removed As a member of the Microsoft HoloLens product and engineering team, I get to see some pretty cool things on a regular basis. Any day of the week, I have a front-row seat to see how our teams, customers, and partners are making a world where mixed reality changes the way we live...

After the collapse of PIP, a breast implant manufacturer that used industrial standard silicon for the implants, not clinical standard, now the Harley Medical Group cries wolf. Whilst I think that every woman who had breast implants for medical reasons should be immediately dealt with on the...

The routine op should have been a snip - but Veronika Cruz, 35, was left in agony for three years after surgeons left a huge pair of scissors inside her. Bungling medics had left the eight-inch long scissors behind during an operation to remove her ovaries in Sao Paulo, Brazil. But...

This was sent to me by one of our moderators Celestra, who has been on the site for some time. CANHR is the California Advocates for Nursing Home Reform. CANHR, as an advocacy organization, and like many other sociological studies and investigations of nursing homes in the US, have found that...