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Bookmark or Share- Bay Area nurse crushed in MRI accident highlighting safety concernsMRI safety advocates say projectiles, burns and implanted devices are common causes of MRI-related injuries and deaths. Cervantes had a severe laceration that required surgery, which included the...
- MRI machine traps nurse in freak accident - New York PostSafety concerns are being raised about a medical center in California after a nurse was recently pinned between an MRI machine and a bed during a freak accident, an investigation by KTVU...
- FastStats - Accidents or Unintentional Injuries - Centers for Disease ...Source: National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey: 2018 National Summary Tables, table 16 [PDF – 704 KB] Emergency department visits Number of emergency department visits for unintentional injuries: 25.5 million
- ‘Medical errors are the third leading cause of death’ and other ...Take a 2016 analysis published in The BMJ, which suggested that medical errors are the third leading cause of death in the U.S., behind heart disease and cancer. Here are just a few of many credulous headlines: The Washington Post: Researchers: Medical errors now third leading cause of death in United States.
- Are medical errors really the third most common cause of death in the U ...The claim that medical errors are the third leading cause of death in the US has always rested on very shaky evidence; yet it's become common wisdom that is cited as though everyone accepts it. But if estimates of 250,000 to 400,000 deaths due to medical error are way too high, what is the real number?
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