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Anesthesia Errors

 

Anesthesia is a very common medication used on patients prior to certain medical and surgical procedures to aid in relaxation, drowsiness and unconsciousness. The main purpose of anesthesia is to put the patient in a state where he or she does not feel any pain during surgery or some other medical or dental procedure. However, a large number of anesthesia errors occurs each year in the United States, and this type of medical malpractice is particularly disturbing because the patient is sedated or unconscious at the time of the error.

 

In any surgery or procedure where anesthesia is involved, the involved risks increase substantially. In fact, it is the anesthesia that is more dangerous to the patient than the actual procedure. Unfortunately, problems with anesthesia often result in catastrophic injuries and death. Anesthesiologists have some of the highest medical insurance premiums of all the medical specialties because of the number of things that can go wrong and how serious the results of those problems can be.

 

Who is Responsible for Anesthesia Errors?
While anesthesia injuries and deaths are most often thought of as occurring in the operating room, they can actually occur in a number of settings including dentists' offices, during labor and child delivery, in pre-operative and recovery rooms and during some fairly minor out-patient procedures that may require general anesthesia in doctors' offices or surgical clinics.

 

Potential defendants in anesthesia-related medical malpractice cases are not just anesthesiologists. Nurses, nurse anesthetists, medical doctors, dentists, surgeons and residents have all been defendants in these types of cases. Demonstrating the negligence of the anesthesiologist or anesthesia staff, however, is difficult to prove because the plaintiff was unconscious or sedated at the time of the malpractice, and medical records in these cases are often lacking information or "lost" altogether. A serious injury or death in an operating or procedure room has a tendency to create panic among the medical professionals in the room, and unfortunately, this is when records tend to be altered or lost.

 

For this reason, you need medical malpractice lawyers on your side who has years of experience in the medical field dealing medical malpractice issues and who has experience hiring document analysts to examine medical records to determine if alterations were made.

 

The medical malpractice attorneys of Silberstein, Awad & Miklos, P.C. specialize in medical malpractice cases of all kinds, including emergency room errors, surgical errors, birth injuries and delays in diagnosis.

 

If you or a loved one has suffered or died as a result of anesthesia medical malpractice in the Bronx, Brooklyn, Queens, Manhattan, Long Island, or NYC, please contact the medical malpractice lawyers at Silberstein, Awad & Miklos, P.C.

 

 

 

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