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How Failure to Monitor Fetal Distress Causes Brain Injuries
The medical team attending a laboring mother has a legal obligation to carefully monitor both mother and unborn child, including watching for signs of fetal distress. When an unborn baby shows signs of fetal distress, the medical team must immediately act to notify the attending physician of the baby’s change in status. The doctor…
Alzheimer’s and Dementia Patients at Risk: 5 Tips to Prevent Wandering
If you subscribe to any local news apps, you may get regular push notifications alerting you of news you need to know. In doing this, you may find “silver alerts” regularly pop up. This is when a person is missing – especially senior citizens with Alzheimer’s disease, dementia or other mental disabilities – and…
$17 million awarded to help researchers study traumatic brain injuries
Traumatic brain injuries impact everyone from high school athletes to combat veterans to car accident victims, yet very little is known about them. More importantly, very little is known how to treat them. That’s why a recent $17 million grant awarded by the Department of Defense to support advances in traumatic brain injury research…