Death after an accidental fall of a 101 year old hospitalized patient. Medico-legal implication of falling in geriatrics

Death after an accidental fall of a 101 year old hospitalized patient. Medico-legal implication of falling in geriatrics

BACKGROUND The case presented by the authors gives the opportunity to discuss the medico-legal issues related to lack of prevention of falls in elderly hospitalized patients. CASE PRESENTATION A 101 year old Caucasian female was admitted to a surgery division for evaluation of abdominal pain of uncertain origin. During hospitalization, after bilateral bed rails were raised, she fell and repor...

[A statistical survey of medico-legal activities for the traffic accidental death].

Out of a total number of judicial autopsies handled in the Department of Legal Medicine, Kurume University School of Medicine during the period from Jan. 1963 to Mar. 1987, the traffic accidental death was recorded 278 cases including 216 cases for male and 62 cases for female respectively being specified as followings: 1) Victims-pedestrians: 168 cases, violent falling from two-wheelers (bicyc...

cost benefits of rehabilitation after acute coronary syndrome in iran; using an epidemiological model

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Hip arthroplasty in a 101-year-old patient.

[Medico-legal problems posed by a fatal poisoning after accidental ingestion of nitrobenzene].