March 30
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Factors that Cause Erb’s Palsy


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Ninety percent of all Erb’s palsy cases in children are caused by child birth complications particularly shoulders dystocia. This is a preventable birth injury which occurs during delivery. What happens is that the infant’s head is delivered but the shoulders would require additional medical maneuvers to be properly pulled out due to complications.
Another name for Erb’s palsy is brachial plexus injury. If the physician has improper preparation, and mishandled these injuries, it would cause fetal and maternal injuries. Large birth size or fetal macrosomia is an indicator of potential complications. In addition, some maternal factors such as previous birth complications, short stature, small birth canal, abnormal pelvic anatomy, and diabetes all contribute to the likelihood of problems.

March 28
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Erb’s Palsy Malpractice


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When the medical professional did not provide the highest quality care possible, or when they fail to provide the standard of care accepted by the medical community, you have the legal right to sue them for compensation for your medical bills, your own trauma, and your child’s pain.
Malpractice takes place when the physician ignored the risk factors that are identifiable before delivery, failure to provide information about the possibility of child complications, have not anticipated a chance of shoulder dystocia, or failed to take proper preventative steps in case of a dystocia situation. This may also include the physician’s use of misdirected or excessive force to reposition the infant resulting to the tearing of nerves, which is the primary cause of Erb’s palsy.

March 25
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CME Programs

nullThese programs commonly provide class credits in technological advancements of the medical practice. They are very broad and assorted, geared toward updates in anything from spinal cord injuries, musculoskeletal disorders, lymphocyte disorders, cardiovascular technologies, lymphocyte disorders, anesthetics, or treatment strategies for facial palsy, type 2 diabetes, osteoporosis, oncology, and many other health care and medical studies.

The duration of individual courses may also vary, depending on the specific area of practice or the school. Some courses would take a few hours, while some will take a few weeks, months or even years to complete. Upon completion, graduates are given special certificates or professional certifications.

March 20
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Getting Continuing Medical Education

nullA Continuing Medical Education (CME) will empower health care professionals to receive up to date and current medical knowledge. This is also referred to as CPD or Continuing Professional Development. These are academic trainings designed to enhance, supplement or improve overall performance, and most specially, technical skills of assistants, nurses, doctors and surgeons in the health care profession.

Programs for this continuous medical education provide comprehensive and focused curriculums in clinical medicine, basic medical sciences, and public health care. Some medical regulatory agencies require their practitioners to attend continuing education courses periodically to maintain or supplement their health care practice.

March 15
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Benefits of JAAMT

nullWhat benefits can you get if you choose to access information through JAAMT? You can learn new clinical themes for medicine in every issue. It also offers a relevant, fresh look at the latest and hottest issues facing the medical industry today. Some of the topics include speech recognition technologies, the evolution of EHR (Electronic Health Record), Billing and Compensation, Legislative advocacy and Outsourcing.

If you are a member of the AAMT (American Association for Medical Transcriptionists) you can access the content that is published in JAAMT by logging in through the organization’s website at www.AAMT.org. If you are a non-member or non-subscriber, you can set up a one-time guest account to purchase online articles.

March 10
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JAAMT

nullThe JAAMT or Journal of the American Association for Medical Transcription will keep medical transcriptionists updated on the challenges and trends affecting the world of medical transcription. It has a distribution frequency of six yearly issues. Information contained here is essential to those pursuing excellence in their medical transcription career no matter if you are a student or already a working professional.

This journal already exists for more than 20 years and their website www.jaamtonline.com is dedicated to the medical transcription advancement through the development of medical transcriptionists. You can still purchase their content publication even if you are not a member.

March 5
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Medical Jobs

The Accuracy of Medical Transcriptions

nullMedical writing is very different from literature, essay, or article writing. There are some features of this type of writing that is not seen in others such as: having a lot of abbreviations, having a lot of brief forms, and using word coinage or shortcut language.

These medical transcriptionists do not have to produce polished documents, nor do any creative forms of writing. The expectation from medical transcriptions is that they have to produce an accurate and clean transcription of the dictation or source document. The work is very challenging because in the real hospital environment, dictations are sometimes imperfect, and it is up to the medical transcriptionist to have sound knowledge of medical terms and be alert to write accurately.

March 1
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What are Medical Transcriptionists?

nullA medical transcriptionist’s job has to do with converting the recorded medical dictations to written text. While the work sounds monotonous and tedious, the task is too error-sensitive to be given to untrained hands. The fact is that only a trained medical transcriptionist is allowed to convert medical transcriptions. Because of this, many companies have extended big remuneration perks and packages to medical transcriptionists.

They might occupy a significant position in a company especially if there is a background or experience behind them. Moreover, the biggest benefit that they have is the freedom to work from home as long as they finish the transcripts.

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