Reporter Q1 2023
CME: TMLT closed claims: Caring for trauma patients; How to leave or close a medical practice; Delayed response to intracranial hemorrhage; Failure to properly examine patient
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Injury
Closed claim studies involving the treatment and diagnosis of trauma and other injuries
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Failure to communicate test results
A 42-year-old man came to urgent care after he injured himself playing basketball.
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Failure to diagnose a foreign body and to follow up
An eight-year-old girl was brought to the ED with a groin injury from a bicycle accident.
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Failure to recognize bowel injury
A 42-year-old woman came to Ob-Gyn A with abnormal uterine bleeding and abdominal and pelvic pain.
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Delay in surgery and improper performance
A 64-year-old man fell from a ladder and injured his left forearm. An x-ray showed a displaced fracture of radial and ulnar shafts.
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Failure to admit, diagnose, and treat
A 48-year-old man was brought to the ED by air ambulance following an auto accident.
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Failure to diagnose femur fracture
A 28-year-old man was involved in a motorcycle collision, sustaining multiple injuries.
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Failure to intubate and prevent aspiration
A 52-year-old man fell from a tree and fractured his ankle. His family brought him to the emergency department of a local hospital at 8:30 p.m.
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Failure to order chest x-ray
A 68-year-old woman had syncopal episodes that resulted in falls with minor head trauma.
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Vision loss following surgery
A 41-year-old woman came to an orthopedic surgeon. Her history included lumbar scoliosis and congenital diastematomyelia.
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