Fears over trauma patient care
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Patients with serious injuries are put at risk by untested and potentially dangerous treatments, experts say.
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The nation&#39;s leading patient-safety oversight group will call Wednesday for hospitals to do more to keep patients from &quot;waking up&quot; during surgery - a sometimes horrifying experience
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The scenes are legendary and occur with disturbing frequency in the nation's operating rooms: doctors yelling at nurses or berating residents, and nurses sniping at their colleagues. Now a growing body of research suggests that such tantrums and insults negatively affect patients by impairing...
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One in eight hospital patients can expect to be adversely affected by their hospital treatment, Canterbury District Health Board (CDHB) members were told yesterday.
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Serious knife injuries have been increasing, say UK trauma experts after a hospital survey.
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Patients in intensive care units are so busy being poked, prodded, jabbed and medicated that they rarely have time for sleep.
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One passenger being treated in hospital for lacerations to his arm and back after the rail crash tells his story.
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A leading expert says patients with breathing problems are being forced to travel too far for rehabilitation services.
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Scores of patients at the V.A. hospital in Albany were put at risk, and employees say bigger concerns were dismissed by officials.
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Many mental health wards in Britain may do more harm than good and on some, patients are subjected to violence, verbal abuse and sexual harassment, according to special reports in the Lancet on Friday.
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Concern over the recently publicized risks of drugs such as Vioxx and Celebrex has left doctors and patients with difficult choices.
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LOS ANGELES -- The proposed closure of the trauma center at Martin Luther King Jr./Drew Medical Center is alarming doctors, police, paramedics and some politicians.
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A curious thing happened to one of my psychiatric residents not long ago. One of his patients caught him off guard with a challenging question: âHave you ever been in psychotherapy yourself?â
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Nurses are not given enough help and support from their bosses in dealing with violent patients, researchers say.
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When a Grand Prairie, Texas, teenager broke his collarbone playing football three years ago, his mother feared that the emergency room staff at Parkland Memorial Hospital
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A terror suspect being treated for severe burns after the Glasgow Airport attack moves hospitals to receive specialist treatment.
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By Justin Davenport, Oliver Finegold And Bo Wilson, Evening Standard. A former mental patient was being questioned today after the knife rampage which left one man dead and five other people seriously injured.