The Spine and Medical Negligence

R. W. Porter (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

200 Seiten

1998
Informa Healthcare (Verlag)
978-1-85996-126-1 (ISBN)

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More than 20,000 spinal operations are carried out in the UK every year and only careful attention to detail in the pre-operative assessment, meticulous surgical care and supervised post-operative management can ensure consistently good results. This text pinpoints the avoidable mistakes.

More than 20,000 spinal operations are carried out in the UK each year, and it is inevitable and unfortunate that mistakes will occasionally be made. Only careful attention to detail in the pre-operative assessment, meticulous surgical care and supervised post-operative management will ensure consistently good results.

This book illustrates the difference between the occasional inevitable complication that can occur in expert hands and avoidable mistakes.

Why do patients sue their surgeons?; The legal process and problems; Informed consent; Positioning of the patient; Nerve root damage; Cauda equina syndrome; Damage to the dura; Spinal infection; Uncontrolled haemorrhage; Prolapsed invertebral disc; Root entrapment syndrome; Spinal stenosis; Spinal fusion; Fractures of the spine; Spinal tumours; Scoliosis; The cervical spine; Negligent medical reports; Risk management.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	15.6.1998
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 235 mm
Gewicht	399 g
Themenwelt	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Gesundheitswesen
	Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Chirurgie ► Unfallchirurgie / Orthopädie
	Studium ► 1. Studienabschnitt (Vorklinik) ► Anatomie / Neuroanatomie
	Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Geschichte / Ethik der Medizin
ISBN-10	1-85996-126-6 / 1859961266
ISBN-13	978-1-85996-126-1 / 9781859961261
Zustand	Neuware