Surgical Mistakes
“Mistakes happen” is a phrase people often use, but when it happens in the operating room, mistakes can have devastating or fatal consequences. U.S. surgeons and anesthesiologists are the best trained in the world, but mistakes happen.
If a medical professional made a surgical error that caused unnecessary complications, he or she can be held responsible for medical malpractice. At Chalik & Chalik Law Offices, our medical malpractice attorneys understand that suffering a catastrophic injury in surgery, or as a result of improper anesthesia, can cause a lifetime of health problems, and worse. Cases involving anesthesia and surgical errors can be extremely complex. You will want a professional on your side.
Surgical procedures are often complex and subject to
various errors. Administration of surgery can also lead
to errors. In some cases, there are known complications
or risks of surgery that are often unavoidable, because
any type of surgical procedure has risks.
Some of the surgical mistakes that can occur include:
- Wrong patient surgery
- Wrong site surgery
- Wrong organ surgery
- Equipment left inside the patient
- Failure to suspend other medications before, during or after surgery
- Too much or too little anesthesia
- Complications from surgery
- Infections from surgery, called “iatrogenic infections”
- Wrong blood type transfusion
Chalik & Chalik Law Offices strongly encourages you to
be proactive. Learn as much as you can about how to
protect yourself from surgical errors before your
surgery.
Surgical mistakes can happen in any area of medicine,
though they tend to be more common in certain fields,
according to various studies. A phone survey by the
National Patient Safety Foundation found that 42% of
people believed they had experienced a medical error
personally or know a relative or friend who had
experienced a medical mistake. The Institute of Medicine
(IOM) reports on two studies estimating the hospital
deaths due to medical errors at 44,000 to 98,000
annually, which would place medical errors and mistakes
in the top 10 causes of death in the U.S. The Journal of
the American Medical Association places the estimates
even higher, citing a total of 225,000 deaths due to
iatrogenic causes, which would place medical mistake
deaths as the third leading cause of death in the U.S.
Additionally, a 1997 study estimates as many as 1
million patients are injured while in the hospital and
approximately 180,000 die as a result, with the majority
due to medication adverse reactions.
Chalik & Chalik Law Offices has experience in surgery mistake cases. Contact us if you or a family member has suffered injury or damages as a result of a surgical mistake.
Thousands of physicians have been disciplined for incompetence, misconduct or negligent behavior. You can help protect your family and others in the community from careless medical malpractice by hiring Chalik & Chalik to hold these medical professionals accountable.
If you or someone you love was injured due to surgical
mistakes, you need Chalik & Chalik to investigate and
prove your claim. Contact the Florida medical
malpractice lawyers at Chalik & Chalik for your
complimentary legal consultation.
