For a variety of reasons, hospitals are dangerous places. Many people are affected by hospital-acquired infections, and to the extent that they are avoidable, negligence may be involved. Hospital acquired infections are infections that occur after 48 hours after admission and have nothing to do with the patient’s diagnosis or health condition. The Center for… Read More
‘Germ Cops’ Hired to Reduce Hospital-Acquired Infections
The Chicago medical malpractice attorneys of Passen & Powell have long maintained that preventing hospital-acquired infections is as much a matter of common sense as it is of expertise. Now, with pressure from the public and from Medicare mounting on hospitals to reduce infection rates, hospitals have decided to take action with a combination of… Read More
Contaminated IV Bags Lead to Deaths
In the latest hospital safety scare, citizens across the United States were shocked to learn that patients in Alabama were infected with toxic bacteria through intravenous feeding bags designed to administer much-needed nutritional supplements to critically ill patients. While our Chicago medical malpractice attorneys were outraged at this news, we are encouraged at the hospital… Read More
Studies Show Many Hospital-Acquired Infections Are Preventable
Previous blog posts from our Chicago medical malpractice lawyers have focused on hospital-acquired infections, or infections patients develop while in the hospital, that can sometimes be fatal. Two new studies, published in the New England Journal of Medicine last week, show that deadly infections often arrive at hospitals with the patient. The studies demonstrate that… Read More