Chattanooga Surgical Injury Law Firm

A surgical error is a type of error that is made during surgery. Surgery errors can be made by surgeons, anesthesiologists, attending medical staff and hospitals. Once a surgical error has occurred, the patient receiving the operation stands a great chance of sustaining an injury, known as a surgical injury. Surgical injuries may be minor or major in nature. Minor injuries would be excessive swelling, bruising or some scarring. These injuries are not too painful and will lessen with time. However, major surgical injuries can damage a patient’s quality of life for years to come and will demand ongoing medical treatment and in some cases, corrective surgeries. 

Common Causes of Surgical Injuries

There are numerous causes for surgical injuries and also numerous reasons why these injuries occur. The most common reasons include:

Medication errors or anesthesia errors (in some cases, patients are given medications or anesthesia that they are allergic to or that causes adverse reactions)

Anesthesia overdose (if anesthesiologists are not careful while administering anesthesia, they may give the patient too much of the anesthetic, which can result in an injury or in some tragic cases, death)

Mistakes reading medical charts (believe it or not, medical professional misread medical charts and patient histories, which can lead to numerous types of errors that will leave patients with injuries)

Performing the wrong procedure (if the surgeon misreads the patient’s medical chart, he/she may perform the wrong procedure on the patient or utilize the wrong surgery technique)

Slipping with the scalpel (if a surgeon’s hands are not steady or if the surgeon loses focus, his/her scalpel may slip, which can lead to the patient sustaining internal injuries and/or blood loss)

Administering the wrong blood type (during surgery, patients are administered blood because they tend to lose a lot of blood during operations, if the medical staff is not careful, an incompatible blood type may be administered which can be extremely harmful for patients

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Helping Victims of Surgical Injury and Negligence in Chattanooga

When you have sustained a serious injury at the hands of a medication professional, you should always speak with a surgical injurys attorney who is experienced in personal injury law and who is prepared to deal with medication related cases like Attorney John Whitfield.