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- Can You Protect Yourself From Hospital-Based Infections?
Oct 25, 2013
A hospital-based infection is also known as a nosocomial infection in the medical literature. These types of infections are engendered in the hospital environment itself. For instance, just the act of visiting a loved one in the hospital or conversing with hospital staff could increase the likelihood of developing a hospital-based infection. Etiology and Risks of Hospital-based Infections Patients with weakened immune systems are especially prone to fungal and bacterial infections in a hospital setting...Read More - The Dangers of the Hospital Emergency Room
Sep 9, 2013
Jeff Cramer* was experiencing severe abdominal pain so he went to the emergency room of his local hospital. Blood work at the hospital demonstrated an abnormally high white blood count which is evidence of inflammation and infection. High doses of narcotics did not relieve the abdominal pain. An x-ray obstruction series was ordered. Several hours passed before all the testing was accomplished. The obstruction series showed a developing partial bowel obstruction which is a potentially dangerous...Read More - New Book Details How Hospitals Facilitated New Jersey’s Killer Nurse
Jun 4, 2013
In his new book, The Good Nurse, Charles Graeber does more than expose the crimes of Charles Cullen, a nurse whose indiscriminate lethal injections of patients in New Jersey and Pennsylvania may make him the most prolific serial killer in history. Mr. Graeber also exposes that The Story of the Killer Nurse Cullen worked as a night nurse at many area hospitals in New Jersey and Pennsylvania. When he was unsupervised, he would select...Read More