Critical Conditions: The Essential Hospital Guide to Get Your Loved One Out Alive

Hospital patient care has become hazardous to the patients health. There must be someone a family member or good friend to oversee and monitor the patients medical care. Learn how to prevent medical errors medication mistakes hospital-acquired infectious diseases and much more. Reach the doctors when you really need them---every time. Navigate the hospital with confidence. Critical Conditions is a step-by-step guide based on over 150 interviews with registered nurses physicians and hospital staff Ms. Ehrenclous own experiences with hospitalized family members and hundreds of hours of research. It is a book for family members written by a family member who has been there. A reported quarter of a million deaths in hospitals nationwide were found to be preventable (The Fifth Annual Health Grades Patient Safety in American Hospitals Study 2008). If someone has a parent spouse sibling or child in the hospital they must get actively involved in the patients care to prevent medical errors. Hospitalized patients are recovering and cannot do this for themselves.