Intervention and management
We publish case reports as an aid to MPS members, to alert them to pitfalls that have caught their colleagues unawares. We believe that these are an invaluable risk-management tool and, as such, they should be rooted in fact – i.e. based on actual events.
Here are some cases involving problems with intervention and management, published in recent editions of UK Casebook.
- Delayed diagnosis of foreign body
- Delayed diagnosis of hypertension
- Atypical presentation of heart disease
- Respiratory depression from postoperative analgesia
- Ventouse not to blame
- Blepharoplasty complications
- Consent is a conversation
- Beware jaw pain
- Concerning anaemia
- Did the pill make her ill?
- Ultrasound, antibiotic prophylaxis and endocarditis
- Keeping abreast of complications
- Operate or wait?
- The importance of being earnest
- Moot myelopathy
- Scarred for life?
- Warning signs
- Accident or negligence?
- An anaesthetist's nightmare
- Culpable for escape bid?
- Failed tubal occlusion
- Inadequate assessment
- Tourniquet trouble
- Stevens-Johnson syndrome
- Epidural emergency
- Spinal cord infarction
- A crucial x-ray overlooked
- If only we had the gift of foresight
- Damage to hepatic ducts
- Minor surgery
- Nobody's perfect
- Patient was ill-informed
- Prepare to be flexible
- Don't stick your neck out
- Haematuria not investigated
- Misplaced injection
- Monitoring fails; kidney fails
- One in the eye for spurious litigation
- Sepsis following chemotherapy
- A tight situation
- Forgotten specialist referral
- Infusion risks
- The downside of luscious lips
