[CULTURE OF SAFETY IN THE HOSPITAL].

The acute care hospital, with its hospitalization departments, diagnostic centers, outpatient clinics, operation rooms and intensive care units, is a very complex industry with the goal of taking care of patients in every stage of their disease, starting with prevention and continuing with diagnosis and treatment. Diagnosis and treatment processes have many stages; most of them depend on high technology and advanced science. Studies in the USA demonstrated 98,000 to 241,000 cases of mortality due to medical errors and complications, third place after mortality due to cardiac diseases and cancer.

[Analysis of brachial plexus injuries reported to MRM].

Upper-arm weakness (paresis) or paralysis in the newborn (Erb's palsy) usually indicates peripheral-nerve damage to the brachial plexus. Its location lateral to the lower cervical spine (C5-T1) renders it susceptible to injury by pressure or traction during pregnancy, labor or delivery. The Medical Risk Management (MRM), a "Madanes" group company, routinely receives adverse events reports from medical centers covered by its medical malpractice insurance.