Tag: "overdose" at medical news

Court Dismisses 143-Crore Claim Against Hospital In Kolkata For Alleged Negligence In Treatment

...e who he claimed had administered an 'unscientific overdose of highly toxic steroid' to his wife Anuradha which resulted in her death. Saha's story began in April 1998 when he and his wife were in Kolkata on a visit to their families. A couple of days later days in Kolkata, Anuradha, 36, developed a cold, a...

Apex Consumer Court Rejects Rs 143 Cr Medical Negligence Claim

...I hospital, Kolkata, administered an 'unscientific overdose of highly toxic steroid Depomedrol' to his wife who had acquired Toxic Epidermal Necrolysis (TEN), an acute skin allergy, during her brief visit to India. 'Medical opinion may differ with regard to diagnosis or treatment but in a complicated case li...

Police Team Permitted to Interrogate Rahul Mahajan

...eader Pramod Mahajan, for a suspected case of drug overdose Monday gave the go-ahead to Delhi Police to interrogate him//. 'We have declared Rahul as fit for interrogation and he will soon be out of the intensive care unit,' said a senior doctor of the Indraprastha Apollo Hospital. 'A police team has alrea...

Drugs Part of Mumbai High Life

...ahajan who hasbeen hospitalised for suspected drug overdose - and Sahil are wellknown among the city's glitterati. "Rahul is a regular at the city hot-spots and parties in upmarketdiscotheques in Bandra, Colaba and Khar," said a regular partygoer. "Sahil too is a known face in the party circuit. He is kno...

Heroin, Killed 130 People In US

... Drug Enforcement Administration also finds some overdose cases - Chicago Police Superintendent Philip Cline, says. Police from the city published fliers warning drug users to avoid using and distributing it....

Police Summoned Apollo Doctors in Rahul Mahajan’s Cas

...aide of Pramod Mahajan, had died of suspected drug overdose after the late night binge at 7, Safdarjung Road, the official residence of the senior Mahajan. Police questioned Prasad Rao, who headed the team that gave medical attention to Rahul Mahajan, Anupam Sibal, medical director of Apollo, and Mukund Pan...

AIIMS Doctors Assists Police in Rahul Mahajan’s Drug Abuse Cas

...ose aide of Pramod Mahajan, died of suspected drug overdose after the binge. The police registered a case against Apollo on June 9 on charges of providing false information. The hospital had initially maintained that Rahul's toxic screen test did not reveal any narcotics in his blood and urine samples. Ho...

Antihistamine Could also be used as a Potential Antimalarial Drug

...hreatening heart arrhythmias when patients took an overdose or with drugs that affected its metabolism. However, arrhythmias are also reported with existing malaria drugs and other antihistamines now sold over the counter. Astemizole is currently still used in 30 countries, including Cambodia, Thailand and Vi...

Overdose of Opioid Painkillers Can Kill Pain and The Patient

...he most common drugs responsible for deaths due to overdose happens to be opioid painkillers which are procured illegally without a prescription//, say researchers. According to the researchers, powerful opioid drugs like oxycodone or fentanyl are now being frequently prescribed by Doctors, with a motive ...

Naloxone Prevents Heroin Overdose

...ve to rely on paramedics, more often than not, the overdose is going to be fatal, just because of the amount of time for people to get there," Prevention Point Philadelphia's executive director, Casey Cook, was quoted as telling by the Associated Press. But many experts feel that only trained paramedics shou...

Bitter Pill: Thrills That Kill

...he loss of her son narrates the incident of a drug overdose that abruptly ended his life. Another prodigal had mixed a potentially lethal combination of a painkiller with beer that nipped his life in the bud. And God help those who underestimate the innocuous cough syrup which can turn wily, if you choose to ...

Medication Errors Affect Leukemia Treatment In Children

...asing the risk of relapse. One patient received an overdose of medication and, consequently, was at greater risk for life-threatening infection. This study identified a 10 percent error rate in outpatient chemotherapy regimens for children with ALL. "It is possible that the efficacy of treatment regimens is...

Sheer exhaustion makes a junior doc’ kill a patient!

... to an inquest heard, a patient was given a lethal overdose of insulin by a tired junior doctor, after working...est caused by complications of surgery, an insulin overdose and chronic obstructive airways disease was recorded. After the hearing Mrs Wright, who has receiv...

Overdose of Chemotherapy Drug kills a woman

A 43-year old cancer patient died after getting an overdose of chemotherapy drugs. The Alberta Cancer Board apologized to her family, yesterday.// Dr. Tony Fields told a news conference on Thursday, “The woman's death last week is a most unfortunate incident. She died from internal bleeding and multiple org...

Cancer patient Dies of Massive Radiation Overdose

...ents, Ken and Liz, were warned by doctors that the overdose could prove fatal or probably leave her paralyzed ...d to determine whether the cancer or the radiation overdose was ultimately responsible for her death. Her parents however blame the radiation overdose saying, ...

Radiotherapy Centers in Scotland Undergo Inspection

...ensure that similar incidents like the devastating overdose administered // to teenager Lisa Norris, who died last week, does not happen again,An official report released yesterday stated that Lisa, 16, from Girvan, had become the victim of an error committed during the transcribing of a computer-generated tr...

Cardiocerebral Resuscitation, A New Technique For Out-Of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest

...tient gasps. For cases of suspected drowning, drug overdose or collapse in children, follow guideline CPR (2 mouth-to-mouth breaths for every 30 chest compressions). Source-Eurekalert SI...

Ex-convicts Die Sooner Than the Normal People

...of Washington//. Among other reasons cited, drug overdose is said to be the primary cause. This is being followed by heart ailments, homicides, suicides, cancer, and smoking. This study was conducted among 26270 men and 3967 women. Dr Binswanger, a researcher and an assistant professor at University of Co...

GMC Disapproves Internet Doctor

...story of psychiatric disorder. The boy consumed an overdose of the same drugs later. The General Medical Council (GMC) is considering withdrawal of license for Dr. Eden to practice. They termed his attitude as highly inconsiderate and casual with no respect to the patient. The council will come to a decisio...

French 'euthanasia Doctor' Avoids Jail

...d jail sentence to a doctor who prescribed a fatal overdose of potassium chloride to a terminally ill cancer patient.// Doctor Laurence Tramois, 35, and nurse Chantal Chanel, 40, had been prosecuted for poisoning Paulette Druais, a 65-year-old woman in 2003. Druais was dying of pancreatic cancer in a hosp...

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