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... reached a confidential settlement in a $16 million suit she filed, alleging that a hospital failed to detect necrotizing fasciitis, a flesh-eating bacteria, before and after she gave birth, causing her to lose three limbs and several organs. * In ...
Source:Daily Record
Date:November 30, 2008
... Broad-spectrum agent, including vancomycin, for MRSA coverage Sepsis syndrome or life-threatening infection (necrotizing fasciitis)(Class 4) Admit; institute aggressive surgical debridement; request infectious disease consult Broad-spectrum agent, ...
Source:OBG Management
Date:November 26, 2008
... had wisdom teeth removed by her dentist. "After the procedure, Shanda contracted a flesh-eating bacteria called necrotizing fasciitis," said her cousin, Lehua Ravey. "In order to save Shanda, who had a 30 percent chance of surviving, she was flown ...
Source:Hawaii Tribune-Herald
Date:November 16, 2008
... 2007. All the patients presented with severe skin and soft-tissue infections, which were often complicated by necrotizing fasciitis, bacteremia, paraspinal abscess, arthritis, or meningitis, with a mortality rate of 20%. The first known Colombian ...
Source:New England Journal of Medicine
Date:November 12, 2008
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