Last year Prof Gurman initiated the publication in our journal of a series of happenings in the field of anesthesia
and intensive care. They escalated to an unwanted outcome and the end of every story was decided in the courtroom. This is why the medical cases turned into legal cases.
There is no happy end to a legal case except for the patient to recover and the doctors to acknowledge their good faith and flawless professional behavior. Still, if some wisdom issues from a legal case, there is a positive reflection one can use later on.
The comments an anesthetist would immediately formulate after confrontation with such a case would be self
defendant, and in no case neutral. And the best defense is evidence-based.
When trying to find medical evidence for radial nerve palsy on the net, the first results the Google offered where
583000 entries. When adding anesthesia, the figure dropped to 237000 and further to 2940 if filtered with
an additional noun, positioning. Thus medical literature referring to the reported case is not exotic, and yet few of the titles red and of the articles studied consecutively were relevant to the subject of the research. [More]
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