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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
DVT (Deep Venous Thrombosis) / PE (Pulmonary Embolism)
DVT refers to blood clots in patient’s arms or legs and PE refers to blood clots in the lungs. These can be life-threatening conditions and are known potential complications associated with immobilization and/or on mechanical ventilation and/or dehydration and/or trauma and/or surgery. It is the standard of care for hospitals to have protocols for thrombosis prophylaxis (prevention of clot formation) unless contraindicated. If a patient develops a clot and wasn’t on a thrombosis preventive protocol it might be considered a deviation from the standard of care.
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