Anesthesia Injuries

The use of anesthesia during surgery is a commonplace practice and is responsible for many modern medical advancements. However, improper administration of the drug or inadequate monitoring of the patient under its effects can result in serious injury or death. Any errors in the anesthesia process could be grounds for a medical malpractice lawsuit.

Birth injuries are particularly troubling because they happen at the start of a person’s life, causing years of trouble and pain that can never be undone. While most babies’ births happen without incident, occasionally doctors make mistakes and things go wrong. In the United States, 27 out of every 1,000 births involve a form of injury.

Birth Injuries

In certain medical cases, it’s necessary for doctors to perform blood transfusions for a patient’s survival, particularly when patients are victims of severe trauma, receiving heart surgery or being treated for cancer. Discrepancies in the blood transfusion process can result in serious injury or death. 

Blood Transfusion Mistakes

Brain damage occurs when the blood or oxygen supply to the brain gets cut off, killing brain cells that, unlike other cells in the body, do not regenerate. A few common brain injuries can result from negligence on the part of the medical team, such as anoxia and hypoxia, in which the brain suffers from a lack of oxygen.

Brain Damage

Cerebral palsy damages the brain and affects a person’s ability to coordinate his or her body movements. Caused by abnormality or disruption in the brain, it usually develops before a child is born or during childbirth. The severity of the brain damage will determine the harm to the patient.

Cerebral Palsy

With the rapid pace of modern life, we often don’t have the time or ability to care for our elderly loved ones, causing many of us to entrust their care to assisted living facilities and nursing homes. There are a variety of signs when looking for elder abuse, such as unexplained nervousness and fear or reluctance to talk.

Elder Abuse

Emergency rooms can be hectic, stressful and overwhelming for both patients and healthcare providers, but procedures should always be in place and followed to ensure that all patients receive the appropriate care and attention they deserve.

Emergency Room Errors

Erb’s palsy, or Erb-Duchenne palsy, is a birth injury caused by the stretching or tearing of the brachial plexus, a nerve system that extends from the spinal cord to the arms and hands. Those with Erb’s palsy may not be able to move their arms or may only be able to move fingers.

Erb's Palsy

We trust our doctors to properly identify and treat different health issues when they arise. When a doctor fails to appropriately diagnose and treat a patient’s condition, it can lead to expensive, harmful, and life-threatening results.

Failure to Diagnose

While heart disease accounts for a quarter of all deaths in America, heart attacks are still frequently misdiagnosed, sometimes leading to serious injury or death. Legal action might be justified in the case that a misdiagnosis was made due to lack of appropriate testing.

Heart Attack Misdiagnosis

Hospital malpractice encompasses a variety of legal issues, such as failure to get informed consent, product liability, breach of duty, and, most commonly, negligence. Plaintiffs must prove the hospital owed them a duty of care and that such duty was breached.

Hospital Malpractice

When we go to a hospital for medical care, the last thing we assume is that we’ll leave in worse condition than when we entered. In some cases, however, hospitals make mistakes that lead to serious injury or harm, or in some cases death.

Hospital Mistakes

When things go wrong in the medical profession, sometimes the whole system is at fault more than an individual health care professional. These are cases of hospital malpractice, when a patient is wronged because of mistakes on a large scale by people that a hospital employs.

Hospital Negligence

When people are prescribed medication by their doctor, most assume it’s the right medication to help them with their health issues. Sometimes people end up with not only the wrong medication, but medication that may lead to serious injury or death.

Improper Medication Errors

The most important factor in treating any cancer is catching the disease early and diagnosing it properly, and leukemia is no different. A misdiagnosis of leukemia, like any cancer, results in a major loss of treatment time for a patient, and can very often lead to death.

Leukemia Misdiagnosis

Preventable mistakes due to negligence are some of the most unfortunate occurrences in life. In the medical profession, preventable mistakes can often lead to serious injury or death. Medical negligence, or medical malpractice, is a leading cause of death in America.

Medical Negligence

Whether at a hospital or a pharmacy, you can be the victim of a preventable medication error. Medication errors can result in serious injuries or death, and many are caused by simple mistakes such as sloppy note taking, illegible handwriting, similar packaging, or incorrect dosages.

Medication Error

Technology is only as effective as those who use it. In the medical world, radiology is no different. Radiology malpractice is constituted by any preventable mistake during radiology procedures, such as failure to diagnose a condition or disease, misdiagnosis of a disease, or failure to use the appropriate method of diagnosis.

Radiology Malpractice

The concept of robotic surgery may create the image of a mistake-free surgical procedure, due to the lack of possibility of human error. In reality, robotic surgery can prove to be just as risky and harmful to patients as any other surgery. Robotic surgery systems are marketed as a safer and less expensive method of performing surgery.

Robotic Surgery Malpractice

Spinal cord injuries can occur whether you’re on the wrong side of an awkward tackle during a football game or involved in a serious car accident. They’re severely damaging, sometimes fatal injuries that have lifelong consequences for those who sustain them.

Spinal Cord Injuries

Even for relatively minor procedures, surgery can be a terrifying experience for people. We trust our surgeons to make each incision with expert precision so that our ailments may be healed without causing any extra damage.

Surgical Injuries

Even after trying various diets, exercise regimens and weight loss medication, sometimes the best or only way for a patient to significantly lose weight is surgery. Like all surgical procedures, weight loss surgery is risky and can have unforeseen and unwanted consequences when surgeons make preventable mistakes.

Weight Loss Claims

Untimely death is always difficult for those who live on, but knowing that the death was preventable and caused by negligence or recklessness makes the situation that much more saddening. If somebody causes the wrongful death of a family member, your family may be entitled to compensation for the loss.

Wrongful Death

X-ray technology, along with other radiologic technology, is one of the most effective tools that the medical profession has ever seen for observing the human body and diagnosing diseases. Unfortunately, if x-ray technology is not used properly by healthcare professionals, serious conditions and diseases can be overlooked and take away the vital treatment time needed for healing.

X-Ray Malpractice

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