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How Common Are Medical Device Injuries?
Medical devices are innovative, and life-saving, and have helped to extend life expectancies worldwide, making it possible for people to live longer with chronic diseases. They also allow seriously ill or injured people to remain mobile and enjoy a higher quality of life. However, like all human-designed instruments and electronics, medical devices do not…
How Can Sepsis Affect the Elderly?
Sepsis has long been a significant cause of death in the elderly. Though anyone who develops an infection in any region of the body can become septic, sepsis is especially dangerous for elderly, ill, or immunocompromised individuals. Medically compromised seniors who depend on assistive technologies such as IVs, breathing tubes, and catheters, are especially…
How Post-Concussion Syndrome Affects the Elderly
When an elderly loved one must live out their remaining years with full-time care, family members seek the best nursing home facilities within their budget in the hopes that their elderly family member will live out their remaining years with the care, comfort, and dignity they deserve. Sadly, understaffing, under-trained staff, and poor supervision…
How Should Bedsores Be Treated?
Bedsores are a significant health risk in nursing homes, with as many as 1 in 10 nursing home residents experiencing bedsores according to the CDC. Bedsores—also called pressure wounds—are wounds caused by unrelieved pressure against vulnerable skin, a problem for those who are bedridden or in wheelchairs. Immobile patients are unable to change their…
Explaining Nursing Home Wrongful Death Lawsuits
When a senior citizen’s care needs exceed what a family can provide at home, family members often place their elderly loved ones in a nursing home with the hope that they’ll live out their remaining years in comfort and dignity, treated with the kindness and respect they deserve. Sadly, common problems in nursing homes,…
Skin Cancer Safety and Warning Signs
While it might be true that sunshine on our shoulders makes us happy, the sun is also the number one cause of premature skin aging. UVA and UVB rays from the sun also lead to skin damage on a cellular level that causes cell mutation and eventually skin cancer, including deadly melanoma. Just five…
Where Can Elder Abuse Occur?
Our elderly loved ones are vulnerable to many types of abuse, including physical, emotional, sexual, and financial abuse. Often, elderly family members are physically or cognitively unable to report their own abuse. Over 15,000 cases of elderly abuse were reported in 2020 alone. Even worse, research suggests that for every reported case of abuse,…
How Can Nursing Home Understaffing Put Your Loved One at Risk?
We all want the best care for our elderly loved ones, but sometimes a lack of adequate staffing in the nursing home environment results in serious harm. While most people think of nursing home abuse as occurring when dangerous staff members purposefully harm patients, nursing home injuries more often occur due to serious forms…
Can an Epidural Cause Birth Defects?
The labor and delivery process is extremely painful, often to the point that mothers compare all other types of pain to this excruciating natural process. An epidural is a modern form of pain management for laboring mothers used in about ¾ of births in the United States. An epidural efficiently blocks pain signals from…
Can Pitocin Harm the Baby During Birth?
Childbirth is a complex process of human physiology, involving an alignment in timing between the mother’s uterus and cervix together with the development of the baby. With the advancement of medical science, physicians have been able to intervene in that synchronistic process in a way that has saved countless lives when something goes wrong….