A new study comprised by researchers at Children’s Hospital in Boston that analyzed National Center for Health Statistics shows a large amount of children’s injuries and harmful medical conditions have been the result of drug side effects.
The researchers looked at data from a ten-year period (1995-2005) and determined that over 585,000 children had to be checked into the hospital for adverse drug events (ADEs). Most visits from these children were to outpatient clinics, but a good amount (22 percent) were treated at ER departments.
“We found that there are as many as 13 outpatient visits for adverse drug events per 1,000 children, indicating that they are a common complication of pediatric care,” said Dr. Florence Bourgeois, the study’s leader of Children’s division of emergency medicine.
Our firm’s San Diego personal injury lawyers believe children should be treated with extra care because of their size and their vulnerability to drugs they have never had before. Some children have the most severe reactions to the simplest of drugs. These children’s injuries can even lead to wrongful death. One way to prevent that from happening would be to make sure that your child gets the best medical treatment available. We recommend that you research the best hospitals for medical treatment. You can even find out ways to lower your medical bill costs.
According to the study, the overall majority, about 43 percent, of visits were by children under the age of four, and young adults age 15-18 followed that. The most common cause of the ADEs were caused by an allergic reaction (52 percent). In terms of drugs, antimicrobials including penicillin were the most commonly implicated drugs. About 28 percent of all visits and about 40 percents of visits under the age of four were caused by them.
Medical complications happen to people of all ages, but they affect children a lot differently because their kidneys may not be used to prescription medications or just not have been exposed to those medications. Our San Diego personal injury lawyers believe it is necessary for doctors to be careful what they give children before those medications cause other more complicated conditions.
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About Michael PinesMichael Pines is a former insurance company attorney who specializes in car accident injury. While he was an insurance attorney, he learned from behind the scenes on how insurance companies work and how they decided to pay injured people. Now that he works against insurance companies, Michael's inside knowledge has resulted in significant benefits to his clients injured in car accidents.
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