Healthcare Inspection: Emergency Department Patient Deaths, Memphis VA Medical Center, Memphis, Tennessee.

摘要

The VA Office of Inspector General Office of Healthcare Inspections conducted an inspection in response to an allegation of inadequate care for patients who died in the Emergency Department (ED) at the Memphis VA Medical Center (the facility), Memphis, TN. The complainant alleged that a patient died after a physician ordered a medication for which the patient had a known drug allergy; another patient died after being administered multiple sedating drugs and not being monitored properly; and a third patient died after delays in getting treatment for very high blood pressure.