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Never Event: Falls and Trauma CASAL 1 Western Governors University
Incidence A fall whether at home or under medical care is never a good event to happen. However, while under medical supervision, a fall is an event that can cause serious trauma to patients and should never happen. Unfortunately, 3 to 20% of patients do fall at least once during a hospital stay. Some would go as far to say more than one third of all in-hospital falls result in injury, including serious injuries such as fractures, head trauma, or death (Falls). Causes Patients in an unfamiliar environment, acute illnesses, surgery, medications, and the placement of various tubes and catheters are frequent challenges that encourage falls (Dykes). Other events that occur before falls include: not knowing how to...