Originally published by our sister publication Anesthesiology News
NEW YORK—In this issue, our series investigating anesthesia-related litigation reviews a case in which subpar supervision, a lack of standardized policies and procedures (or lack of knowledge of them), and poor communication led to postoperative paraplegia in a patient undergoing shoulder surgery. How could this happen?
At the 2023 annual PostGraduate Assembly in Anesthesiology, Patricia Fogarty Mack, MD, a professor of