House Officer Series - Do you know what you don’t know? (Episode 6)
The Medical Protection New Zealand podcastShow Notes
You are on call and a patient comes in afterhours for anti-thrombolysis following a stroke. There is confusion about the availability of alteplase in the hospital and you’ve never prescribed this before, in fact is there even a protocol? Where do you start?
We discuss learnings from this HDC case where the HO made critical errors which led to the death of the patient.
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