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Hospital negligence is preventable and should not be tolerated. If someone has made a mistake at a hospital, harming you, you should not let this go unpunished. So in this case, the Lewis Law Firm provides attorney services to Hospital Malpractice area. Hospital malpractice includes any type of medical negligence that occurs in a hospital setting, including errors by doctors, nurses, technicians and other hospital staff. Hospital malpractice causes thousands of injuries and deaths every year. Cases of medical negligence often involve complex issues regarding emergency room care, surgery, intensive care treatment, labor and delivery and medication errors. These cases require wide medical research, investigation and analysis. The Medical Malpractice Lawyers are skilled at prosecuting hospital negligence cases and effectively prosecuting this type of medical malpractice.
Some common situations that may involve hospital malpractice include:
- Medication error - If a doctor makes an error in recommending medication to a patient, it can pose a considerable risk to the health of the individual. An incorrect prescription can result in an overdose or drug interaction that can cause illness, long-term damage, disability, and in some cases, death. In case in which the doctor prescribes an improper amount or improper medication, the patient may suffer serious harm from the failure to cure a curable disease.
- Surgical Injury - All surgeries carry a degree of risk. However, sometimes avoidable errors may be made during a surgical procedure. Some surgical mistakes clearly amount to negligence and give rise to strong cases. These may include surgical mistakes such as Operating on the wrong part of the body, particularly if harm is done to that part of the body, failure to assure the correct blood type for transfusions, surgical instrument left in the body and Operations performed on the wrong patient.
- Birth injury or birth trauma - Medical Malpractice affects patients of all ages, including newborn babies. Babies are particularly susceptible to injury during and directly after birth, so their vulnerable bodies must be handled with exceptional care. When medical professionals are negligent in their duty to provide this care, serious, permanent injuries such as cerebral palsy, Erb's palsy, shoulder dystocia, brain damage, and skeletal deformities can result. In many cases, these birth injuries could have been prevented had the health care providers exercised due care.
- Hospital infection - A hospital-acquired infection is any clinically analyzed infection that is not associated with the circumstances that brought the patient to the hospital in the first place. Typically, an infection that appears 48 hours or more after your admittance into the hospital may be considered a hospital acquired infection, however few such infections do not appear until after you have already left the hospital. Not all infections are avoidable. However, with the high rate of administration of antibiotics, some infections are being difficult, if not impossible, to avoid and treat effectively. MRSA and VRE are two such examples of “resistant bugs.” For the very young, the elderly and those whose resistant systems may already be compromised, contracting a hospital acquired infection can be catastrophic and deadly.
These are some more situations that may involve hospital malpractice such as improper use of anesthesia, Failure to treat an illness, Failure to order proper tests, Failure to monitor patient, Failure to consult with a specialist, etc. So in this way, a hospital malpractice lawyer will advise their patients of their lawful rights and options and will seek appropriate compensation based on the damages suffered because of the hospital malpractice.
