No Win No Fee Solicitors Blackburn Analyse Wasteful Medical Tests

While a range of errors can lead to people making medical negligence claims with personal injury solicitors Blackburn, unnecessary tests and procedures play a factor in many of them. While these procedures can be expensive and wasteful, in some circumstances they can also be harmful.

As a result, healthcare specialists from across the US have made a number of recommendations that could prevent these potentially dangerous interventions and prevent people from claiming compensation with a no win no fee solicitor Blackburn. This advice has been published by the Society of Hospital Medicine and the American Board of Internal Medicine Foundation, and formed part of a study led by Baylor College of Medicine and Children's Hospital of San Antonio Fellow in Hospital Medicine Richard Quinonez, MD, FAAP.

Five recommendations for adult treatment were made by the specialists - these are:

• Do not leave urinary catheters in place on non-critical patients for monitoring of output, convenience or incontinence.
• Unless inpatients are likely to suffer from gastrointestinal complications, do not prescribe them with stress ulcer prophylaxis medications.
• There is no need for repetitive chemistry and blood count testing when lab and clinical results are stable.
• Unless there is a protocol that covers continuation, hospitals should not order continual telemetry monitoring in rooms other than the intensive care unit.
• Red blood cell transfusions to reach arbitrary haematocrit or haemoglobin thresholds should be avoided except for in cases of stroke, heart failure or active coronary disease.

The specialists also made five suggestions that could prevent children or their parents making cases with personal injury solicitors Blackburn. These are:

• Children with asthma and bronchitis should not receive chest radiographs. False positives lead to the overuse of antibiotics and the tests result in radiation exposure.
• Children with bronchiolitis should not be treated with bronchodilators, as these have very limited effectiveness.
• Continuous pulse oximetry, which measures the blood's oxygen saturation, should not be routinely used in minors, except in cases where the child requires supplemental oxygen.
• Children younger than two with lower respiratory tract infections should not be systemically treated with corticosteroids.
• Infants with gastro-oesophageal reflux should not be routinely treated with acid suppression therapy, as this does not appear to work better than placebo and can have harmful side effects.

While these suggestions were made with US doctors in mind, British hospitals could also implement them. This could save money, improve treatment standards and prevent people from visiting a no win no fee solicitor Blackburn to make a medical negligence claim.

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