'Never Events' Responsible for One Out of Six Med Mal Liability Claims, Says Aon

Four recognized categories of hospital-acquired conditions make up 12.2 percent of total medical professional liability costs CHICAGO, Sept. 29 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Hospital-acquired infections, hospital-acquired injuries, objects left in surgery and pressure ulcers account for on...

New Med Mal Insurance Company Medicus to Stay in Illinois

Company remains focused on expanding business CHICAGO, Nov. 13 /PRNewswire/ -- Medicus Insurance Company today vowed to continue writing medical malpractice insurance in Illinois despite a Cook County Circuit Court ruling overturning the state's two-year-old tort reform law which ...

Analysis Shows Lamictal As An Effective Additional Therapy For Treatment of Grand Mal Seizures

Researchers have shown the effectiveness of Lamictal (lamotrigine) as additional treatment method in children and young people with primary// generalized tonic-clonic (PGTC) seizures. According to the latest issue of the journal Paediatrics, lamotrigine (LAMICTAL) has been demonstrated to be...

Top Five Things Hospitals Need to do in Order to Remain Safe and Secure

...s for a safer hospital environment include: Anyone can walk into a hospital and wander around the halls. To detour intruders with mal intent from entering, secure all entry points 24-hours a day including front doors, side doors, loading docks, offices with outside access and especia...

Progen Receives Nasdaq Notice Regarding Board Composition

...capital) trade on The Nasdaq Capital Market. This situation developed as a result of the removal from the Board of the four independent directors mal Eutick, John Lee, Patrick Burns and Robert Williamson during the 27th of March 2009 General Meeting of Progen shareholders, as reported by the Company...

OBS Medical's Visensia Patient Monitoring Technology Lowers Cost of Medical Malpractice Insurance

...ajor insurer of hospitals' medical malpractice exposures with a track record of innovation, has recognized the benefits this can bring in reducing med mal claims." About OBS Medical OBS Medical is based in Carmel, Indiana and provides innovative clinical algorithms for safer hospitals, safer pat...

Staying Healthy in 2009

...gton formed to bolster customer service and product knowledge and the key hirings of sales consultant Jim Tressler and the new Vice President of sales mal Chandler. When asked how Equal Health was able to increase its cash flow in 2008, company president Chris Novinger said, "We re-dedicated ourse...

Equal Health Hires Experienced VP Chandler

... ARLINGTON, Texas, Jan. 6 /PRNewswire/ -- mal Chandler will begin the new year in his new role as Vice President of sales at Equal Health. The McKinney resident, and father of two, brings his expe...

Hunter Tylo of CBS' The Bold and The Beautiful Joins Forces With the American Epilepsy Outreach Foundation in Public Awareness Campaign

...iencing a seizure. FIRST AID FOR CONVULSIVE SEIZURES A Convulsive Seizure is also known as a Tonic-Clonic Seizure, formerly referred to as a Grand mal Seizure. At the start of a seizure, the person may cry out, then usually stiffens and falls. Their arms and legs may jerk or twitch. You will not be a...

Amneal Pharmaceuticals Receives US FDA Approval for Three Generic Prescription Drugs; Two Using New FDA Electronic Filing Format

...or concomitantly with other anticonvulsants, is indicated in the control of grand mal, psychomotor, and focal epileptic seizures. It may control grand mal seizures refractory to other anticonvulsant therapy. Cyclobenzaprine HCl Tablets USP, in 10mg strength, is an AB-Rated therapeutically equivalent al...

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MAL in Medical Dictionary

Petit mal

Absence seizures are one of several kinds of seizures. These seizures are sometimes referred to as petit mal seizures . Petit mal seizures occur most commonly in people under age 20, usually in ... Atypical petit mal seizures begin slower, last longer, and may have more ... ...

Grand mal

Tonic–clonic seizures are a type of generalized seizure affecting the entire brain. Formerly known as grand mal seizures or gran mal seizures, these terms are now discouraged and rarely used in a clinical setting. Tonic–clonic seizures are the seizure type most commonly... Grand ...

Wax

... component of ear wax is keratin (derived from dead skin) ... DetailSupplyDepot.com, wholesale source for 3M, Autoglym, Meguiar's, Malco, ... mal 120232 - Enhancer™ Premium Crème Wax , 32 oz. ... ...

Vestibular Disorders

...t for people with head injuries and inner-ear disturbances. Causes of dizziness, vertigo, and imbalance; balance as a ... Vestibular Migraine. mal de Debarquement. Pediatric Vest. Disorders . Aging & Dizziness ... Learn about vestibular balance disorders including the symptoms caused...

Seizure

... seizure . ... After the seizure , there is drowsiness or confusion. ... The child or parent may then realize a seizure is coming. ... Petit mal seizure : staring spells happen ... Seizures can happen when you don't even think it's a seizure . ... Over 3 percent of children will have ...

Seizures

... generalized seizure affecting the entire brain. Formerly known as grand mal seizures or gran mal seizures , these terms are now discouraged and rarely used in a clinical s...

Seasickness

... Sea Sickness or motion travel illness, the condition and potential cures, mal de Mer. ... Seasickness is a feeling of nausea and, in ... An Introduction to the causes and symptoms of Seasickness ... About.com on mal de Mer - Seasickness . about sitemap faq contact ... Charter boat, cha...

Petit mal seizure

...ese seizures are sometimes referred to as petit mal seizures . A petit mal seizure is the term commonly given to a staring spell, most commonly ... Most petit mal seizures last only a few seconds. ... Peti...

Generalized tonic

...fecting the entire brain. Formerly known as grand mal seizures or gran mal seizures, these terms are now discouraged and rare...olving the entire body. It is also called a grand mal seizure. Such ... Generalized tonic -cloni...

Electroconvulsive

... Therapy ... The shock treatment or electroconvulsive therapy is ... Electroconvulsive therapy provokes a convulsion similar to a grand mal epileptic ... MySpace profile for electroconvulsive . Find friends, share photos, keep in touch with classmates, and meet new people on MySpace....

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