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Critical Care Negligence
Conditions
- Hypertension (high blood pressure)
- Hypotension (low blood pressure)
- Cardiac Arrest (heart attack)
- Mechanical Ventilation
- (GI) Ulcers
- DVT (Deep Venous Thrombosis) / PE (Pulmonary Embolism)
- Sepsis
- Personnel related complications
- Procedure related complications Procedures
- Intraaortic Balloon Pump (IABP)
- Chest Tube
- Percutaneous Endoscopic Gastrostomy (PEG)
- Tracheostomy
- Central Venous Line (CVL)
- Arterial Line
Sepsis
Sepsis is a life threatening systemic infection that is commonly treated in the ICU. If a patient, however, is admitted to the ICU for another condition and then develops sepsis it could possibly be the result of medical negligence. For example, many measures are implemented to prevent skin breakdown, however pressure ulcers do occur. If these ulcers are not recognized and properly treated, they could lead to a localized infection and progress to sepsis. Another mechanism by which sepsis can occur is contamination of IV lines with ‘antibiotic resistant’ hospital bacteria.
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