Anesthesia Injuries Lawyer Miami FL

Were you in emergency care or surgery and given anesthesia, but the dosage or type, led to severe complications? Did you suffer injury, or perhaps you are the family who lost someone due to the anesthesia error? If so, please call an anesthesia injuries lawyer Miami, FL recommends now.

Emergency rooms are often the site of worry and stress for those patients who find themselves being treated. Most people go to emergency rooms because they have suffered a traumatic injury or having symptoms that indicate something could be terribly wrong. The last thing emergency room patients need to worry about is whether or not they will also be a victim of a medical error that could cause them even more injury or sickness.

Unfortunately, emergency room errors, including anesthesia mistakes and injuries, are increasingly common, and patients often need to decide whether or not to pursue a medical malpractice lawsuit against those who are responsible. If you have been a victim of an emergency room error, or an anesthesia mistake, please call  Needle & Ellenberg, P.A. to meet with an anesthesia injuries lawyer Miami, FL families trust to find out what your legal options may be.

Common Emergency Room Mistakes

Anyone who has ever been in an emergency room can likely attest to how chaotic it can be, especially if the facility is in a large city or there are many patients who show up at the same time. Data collected reveals that there are certain emergency room errors that show up frequently. These include the following:

•       Diagnosis: One of the most top medical errors that occur in emergency rooms involves diagnosing the patient’s medical issue. Misdiagnosis, delay in diagnosis, or failure to diagnose are responsible for almost 60 percent of all emergency room errors that occur each year.
•       Treatments: In many cases, the medical staff diagnosis the patient’s condition correctly but fail to provide the patient with the proper treatment. Some of the more common errors in this category include inserting an IV line incorrectly or failure to properly clean a laceration.
•       Incorrect medication or failure to provide medication: In almost 5 percent of emergency room errors, medical staff gave the patient the wrong medication or failed to give the patient the medication they needed. Tragically, this mistake can also be a fatal one.

If you are the victim of an error made in the emergency room, please call an emergency room and anesthesia injuries lawyer Miami, FL men and women turn to for advice about medical malpractice claims.

Emergency Room Standard of Care

In order to be successful in a medical malpractice lawsuit, a victim’s attorney must be able to prove four elements:

•       The hospital owed the patient a duty of care
•       There was a breach of that duty
•       The medical professional’s actions (or inaction) caused that breach
•       The patient suffered harm as a result of that breach

The first element is often easy to prove since state law mandates that a medical professional owes their patient a duty of care. A medical malpractice and anesthesia injuries lawyer in Miami, FL also has multiple ways to prove the harm a patient suffered, including medical records, medical expenses, expert testimony, and testimony of the victim’s family and friends.

Proving breach of duty, the second element, can be more complex. The question that must be answered is whether or not the medical professional used the same skill, knowledge, and care when diagnosing and treating the victim as another medical professional would have used in similar circumstances. If the answer is no, then the medical professional was likely negligent. Bare in mind that if a anesthesia mistake occurred, your anesthesia injuries lawyer Miami, FL respects may pursue a claim against multiple parties including the anesthesiologist, nurse anesthetist, doctor, or medical facility.

WHAT TYPE OF ANESTHESIA ERROR INJURED YOU?

Anesthesia mistakes can occur due to understaffing or allowing unqualified staff to administer anesthesia. A victim may receive the wrong amount of anesthesia, he or she might be improperly monitored, or it may be administered in the wrong form. Most of these issues revolve around profit. Often these errors come down to the quality and size of the staff. Quality and staff size can be determined by budget and profit, and your health should be more important than a dollar sign, a pinched budget or an effort to maximize profit.

Anesthesia errors can result in:

• Brain damage
• Paralysis
• Death

Litigation is costly. We are prepared to make an investment in meritorious cases and carefully explain the costs as we work through the legal process, so when your case is resolved you do not face any financial surprises. You will not pay us unless we recover for you.

ANESTHESIA MISTAKES AND COMPENSATION FOR INJURIES

Anesthesia is a useful tool. It helps ease a patient into and out of complicated medical procedures. Without it, patients would feel extreme pain. If anesthesia is administered incorrectly, however, the pain the patient was avoiding could be exponentially increased. At Needle & Ellenberg, P.A., our attorneys have more than five decades of combined experience helping individuals who have been injured due to another’s negligence. Give us a call today to set up a free evaluation about your injuries and right to seek compensation. Based in Miami and Fort Lauderdale, we serve clients in communities throughout Florida.

CONTACT THE LAW FIRM OF NEEDLE & ELLENBERG, P.A., FOR A FREE EVALUATION

To discuss your situation with an experienced  anesthesia injuries lawyer Miami, FL  community members can rely on, please contact our firm by calling (305) 530-0000 or 877-810-2864. You can also email us.