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  2. Medical malpractice in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Physicians examined the records of 1452 closed malpractice claims. Ninety-seven percent were associated with injury; of them, 73% got compensation. Three percent of the claims were not associated with injuries; of them, 16% got compensation. 63% were associated with errors; of them, 73% got compensation (average $521,560).

  3. Loss of use - Wikipedia

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    Under workers' compensation law, a schedule loss of use is the set amount of compensation an employee may receive for the inability to use a particular body member, such as an arm, hand, finger, leg, foot, or toe. An injured employee will receive monetary benefits for the loss of use of such a body member during periods of temporary disability ...

  4. At rehab center, a loss-of-limb ritual helps bring a ... - AOL

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    The retired Naperville Central High School teacher had been through much grief: the loss of his parents, multiple miscarriages with his wife, Frances, and her death in 2019 of ovarian cancer after ...

  5. Compartment syndrome - Wikipedia

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    Acute compartment syndrome can lead to a loss of the affected limb due to tissue death. [6] [9] Symptoms of acute compartment syndrome (ACS) include severe pain, decreased blood flow, decreased movement, numbness, and a pale limb. [5] It is most often due to physical trauma, like a bone fracture (up to 75% of cases) or a crush injury.

  6. Survey of Occupational Injuries and Illnesses - Wikipedia

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    In the United States in 2012, 4,383 workers died from job injuries, 92% of which were men, [7] and nearly 3 million nonfatal workplace injuries & illness were reported which cost businesses a collective loss of $198.2 billion and 60 million workdays. [8]

  7. Amputation - Wikipedia

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    Severe limb injuries in which the efforts to save the limb fail or the limb cannot be saved. Traumatic amputation (an unexpected amputation that occurs at the scene of an accident, where the limb is partially or entirely severed as a direct result of the accident, for example, a finger that is severed from the blade of a table saw)

  8. National Nurses United - Wikipedia

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    National Nurses United (NNU) is the largest organization of registered nurses in the United States. [2] [3] [4] With more than 225,000 members, [1] [5] it is the farthest-reaching union and professional association of registered nurses in the U.S. Founded in 2009 through the merging of the California Nurses Association/National Nurses Organizing Committee, the United American Nurses, and the ...

  9. Capillary refill - Wikipedia

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    Capillary refill time is traditionally used as a clinical indicator of tissue vascularity either after limb injury or after revascularization [15] and the most reliable and applicable site for CRT testing is the finger pulp (not at the fingernail), and the cut-off value for the normal CRT should be 3 seconds, not 2 seconds. [2]