Michael Talve, CEO

This case involves a female patient who underwent a breast reduction surgery and developed an infection, which led to necrosis and death of the areola tissue. The patient underwent several additional surgeries to reconstruct a nipple that was met with…

This case involves a fifty-two-year-old woman who was admitted to the hospital due to complaints of bloody stool. Studies and samples were ordered which did not show any source for the bleed. A colonoscopy was performed which revealed blood throughout…

This case involves a thirty-seven-year-old female patient who presented to the emergency room complaining of chronic back pain in the lower lumbar region. She suffered the injury after undergoing a dilation and curettage procedure. The patient stated that the pain…

This case involves an injury to a woman shopping at a supermarket. The supermarket was two stories and had an automated escalator used to transport shopping carts from one floor to the next. The escalator was only for carts, and an…

This pediatric radiology case involves a six-year-old boy who was in distress and taken to a community emergency late in the evening. The patient complained of severe abdominal pain and unrelenting bilious vomiting. The patient was sent for abdominal X-rays that…

This case involves an elderly patient, undergoing treatment for many conditions, who developed a distal right common iliac thrombus occlusion. During the hospital stay,  the patient underwent an embolectomy and femoral-popliteal bypass. The patient also developed cellulitis of the right…

This case involves the care of a fifty-two-year-old male patient who underwent a routine colonoscopy. In 2007, the colonoscopy revealed a two-centimeter sessile mass in the sigmoid colon. The mass was biopsied and the pathology report revealed a tubular adenoma.…

This case involves a thirty-seven-year-old woman with a medical history of a mitral valve replacement. The patient presented to the emergency room with severe weakness in the left upper extremity and impaired coordination. A CT was performed and the initial…

This case involves a thirty-two-year-old female who was pregnant with twins. The patient went into labor at twenty-four weeks gestation and ultrasound studies suggested that the babies had some bone length discrepancies. The patient was admitted with fetal monitoring ordered…

This case involves a case of crush syndrome resulting from continuous compression of the upper arm by a dysfunctional automatic cycle blood pressure cuff. The patient was in a postoperative recovery room where he was connected to continuous monitoring devices,…