Question

A woman trained in cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) worked as the office manager for an insurance business. When her coworker at the next desk had a heart attack and fell to the floor, the office manager began CPR and shouted for others in the room to dial 911. The department supervisor came running and told the office manager to stop CPR. She reluctantly obeyed. Emergency medical technicians arrived, but the heart attack victim died. 8. The victim's husband sued the supervisor, the office manager, and the employees parent organization for failure to render medical assistance. In a finding for the defendants, an appeals court ruled there was "no duty of care" for the employees to render assistance. 0 Despite this court's ruling, in a similar situation, would you have acted as the CPR-trained office manager did? Explain your answer During an endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP) (a gallbladder X-ray that requires injection of a dye), an inexperienced nurse injected the dye too forcefully and caused the patient to develop pancreatitis (inflammation of the pancreas) and suffer other debilitating injuries. 9. The patient sued and won. Refer to the four Ds of negligence to explain the court's decision. An on-call ophthalmologist, without seeing the patient, diagnosed his eye pain, sensitivity to light, and nausea as sinusitis. In fact, the patient had acute angle closure glaucoma and lost sight in the eye. 10. When this case came to trial, the court found in favor of the patient/plaintiff. Explain the court's decision based on the four Ds of negligence Mc Graw

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8. The scenario is a woman trained in a Cardiopulmonary resuscitation worked as the office manager for an insurance business. When the co-worker at the next desk had a heart attack and fell to the floor, the office manager began CPR and shouted others in the room to dial 911. The department supervisor came running and told the office manager to stop CPR. She reluctantly obeyed. Emergency medical technicians arrived but the heart attack victim died.

Life is valuable for each and every human being it is more than that. We can buy anything with money, but we cannot buy a life back from the God.

One's life is valuable not only for himself but also for the family, friends, relatives, society, country/nation and for the world also, but no one is not aware of that.

Here we can see the office manager has trained in cardiopulmonary resuscitation, more than the general public she knows what is the importance of a CPR and how it will be life-saving ones. But as an employee, she is not given importance to that, why because when the supervisor told her to stop the CPR she obeyed for that and not shown them as before.

Anyway as an employee we have to respect the supervisors and obey them. But in some situation, we have to show some humanity. If she may act in a good way maybe but not sure can save the co-worker life.

If I am in her place surely I continue to give CPR till getting medical assistance for the victim for further management, then I will give the rationale regarding the situation to the supervisor later making sure that the victim is safe or got adequate medical assistance.

9. In order to obtain a judgment for negligence against the nurse, the patient must be able to show all four of what are called the “four Ds” – duty, dereliction of duty((negligence or deviation from the standard of care), direct or proximate cause, and damage. Each of these four elements must be proved to have been present, based on a preponderance of the evidence, for malpractice to be found. The principles to be followed during an administration of a dye or even a drug. Here the inexperienced nurse who have administered the dye before an endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography often play a central role in deciding whether dereliction and direct cause for damages were or were not applicable in a particular case. This forceful administration of drug results in a complication that is pancreatitis.

10. For the present scenario, In order to obtain a judgment for negligence against the ophthalmologist, the patient must be able to show all four of what are called the “four Ds” – duty, dereliction of duty((negligence or deviation from the standard of care), direct or proximate cause, and damage

When the present case comes to the court. the court found in favor for the patient why because, here the ophthalmologist had done medical negligence that he did not do his duty as per guidelines that is without seeing and not doing the history, physical examination or other equipment examination he had made the incorrect diagnosis. It includes four D's of negligence by the medical professional and result in the damage or lost the sight of the eye.