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Pain Treatment Medical Malpractice

Sadly sometimes the medicine that is meant to ease your pain can ultimately kill you if negligently managed. Doctors and hospitals often inject narcotic medication to treat pain.

However, narcotics can be dangerous especially if used with tranquilizing medicine. When combined, the two medicines can reduce your ability to breath to the point that you suffocate.

Of course, if doctors or nurses fail to recognize inappropriate administration of such medicines, breathing problems or respiratory distress, death can occur quickly by suffocation. The youngest and oldest are the most susceptible to the dangers caused by narcotic overdose.

To prevent narcotic overdose, doctors and nurses should not give narcotic shots more frequently than every three hours. In addition, these medication combinations have a cumulative effect which must be accounted for when determining the correct doses. Both doctors and nurses shoulder the responsibility for protecting their patients from narcotic overdose.

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