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Article: Nurses cause 7-hour delay in treatment of cardiac patient.(Nursing Law Case of the Month)
- Article from:
- Nursing Law's Regan Report
- Article date:
- August 1, 2005
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CASE ON POINT: Hillcrest Baptist Medical Center v. Wade, 2005 WL 1837004 S.W.3d--TX
ISSUE: What could justify a 7-hour delay in treating a cardiac patient? Nothing!
CASE FACTS: Thirty-eight year-old Penny Wade went to the Emergency Department at Hillcrest Baptist Medical Center at 3:45 a.m., on February 4, 2002. At 3:52 a.m., she was triaged by a nurse, who noted that she smoked a pack of cigarettes a day. The nurse failed to note a family history of coronary artery disease. Thirty minutes later, a night-shift nurse assessed the patient but did not place her on a cardiac monitor. At 5:07 a.m., Dr. Norwid, an emergency room physician, saw the patient, ...