Medical Malpractice

Medical-legal issues debated surrounding ICU-acquired MRSA-associated death

Published in TB and Outbreaks Week, May 24th, 2005

The medical-legal issues are debated surrounding an intensive care unit-acquired methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus-associated death.

According to a recent report from Belgium, "An elderly patient dies from septic shock in the intensive care unit."

"This is perhaps not an unusual scenario, but in this case the sepsis happens to have been due to methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, possibly related to a catheter, and possibly transmitted from a patient in a neighboring room by less than adequate compliance with infection control procedures. The family decides to sue," said J.L. Vincent and coauthors at the Free...

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