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Article: What is nurse's role in cardiac catherization procedure?(Nursing Law Case of the Month)
- Article from:
- Nursing Law's Regan Report
- Article date:
- July 1, 2005
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CASE ON POINT: Applebaum v. Sharma, No. 104237/02 (N.Y. Sup. 07/01/2005)
ISSUE: What is a nurse's role in a cardiac catherization procedure? That was just one of the issues, which was raised in this unusual New York case, in which a patient undergoing cardiac catherization was attended to by one physician and a nurse practitioner. According to the patient, she recalled that the physician "yelled" at the nurse practitioner. The patient she subsequently suffered loss of hearing, which she alleged was a result of an improperly performed cardiac catherization procedure. The courts were also conformed with the issue of whether or not the doctrine of Res Ipsa Loquitur ...