March 2003

Articles

• Cauda equina syndrome
• The role of the expert witness

Case reports

• Once bitten, twice shy
• Internal inquiry snowballs
• Infection following rotator cuff repair
• A ‘lost’ coil
• When push comes to shove
• Urgent appointment refused
• Try-on goes to trial
• Failed corrective surgery leads to amputation
• No examination is no excuse
• VBAC trial goes wrong
• Missed temporal arteritis
• Steroid injections rupture tendons
• Transfusion patient dies from ARDS
• Out-of-date implants

Letters

• Antenatal HIV testing
• Scrotal confusion
• IM diclofenac
• Hand injury

Noticeboard

Book reviews

• Risk Management in Healthcare by Dr Geoff Roberts
• Medication Errors: Lessons for Education and Healthcare by Robert Naylor