What Are Some Common Errors Leading to Emergency Room Malpractice and What Are the Causes of These Errors?

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in an emergency room time matters and
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how fast interventions occur are of
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particular importance and this is true
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particularly with cases of heart attacks
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cases of Strokes cases of involving
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infections in all three of those areas
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rapid intervention and the
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timeline matter so you might get the
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right antibiotic but it might not have
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been until 6 or 8 hours later when your
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infection had already progressed to a
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point it couldn’t be cured you might uh
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be properly diagnosed with a stroke but
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because of a failure to consult the
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neurologist or bring in the right expert
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you didn’t get the proper thrombotic
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therapy in order to treat that stroke
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within the window that it can be
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administered so an emergency room uh
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medicine really time is the most
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important issue