Pharyngitis - fatal infectious disease or medical error?
Reporting on adverse events is essential to create a culture of safety, which focuses on protecting doctors and patients from medical errors. We present a fatal case of Streptococcus C pharyngitis in a 56-year-old man. The clinical course and the results of additional diagnostics and autopsy showed that sepsis followed by multiple organ failure was the ultimate cause of death. The clinical course appeared fatal due to a chain of adverse events, including errors made by the physicians caring for the patient for 10 days.
Marta Rorat M.D., Department of Forensic Medicine, Wroclaw Medical University, Mikulicza Radeckiego 4, 50-368 Wroclaw, Poland, tel. +48 71 784 14 74, e-mail: rorat.marta@gmail.com.
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