Atlanta Medical Malpractice Lawyer

Representation for Patients Who Have Suffered from Anesthesia Errors

Anesthesia is applied for patients who will be undergoing surgery as well as numerous other medical procedures. It is a highly specialized medical malpractice, one that only a trained anesthesiologist should be overseeing. While medical technology has advanced the practice to great heights, there may still be times when a surgeon, nurse, and even an anesthesiologist makes a critical error that leads to a patient’s suffering.

The Impact of Anesthesia Errors

Anesthesiologists have the duty of recording and maintaining a patient’s vitals and oxygen levels while the patient remains anesthetized. If they fail to adequately monitor this, this critical mistake can have life-threatening consequences for the patient.

These are some of the common types of anesthesia errors:

• Drug interactions
• Allergic reactions
• Using defective medical devices
• Overdosage or under-dose of anesthesia
• Incorrect or insufficient labels or warnings
• Failure to provide instructions to the patient prior to providing anesthesia
• Delaying the time to deliver anesthesia to the patient

Anesthesia errors can lead to the following conditions:

• Seizures and strokes
• Spinal cord injury
• Brain or organ damage
• Cardiovascular collapse
• Malignant hyperthermia
• Vein, nerve or artery damage
• Coma and death

You have the right to take matters into your hands and pursue a claim for financial compensation. Victims of medical malpractice or negligence should never have to suffer quietly—especially when in the hands of a medical professional who should know how to treat patients appropriately.

Our Atlanta medical malpractice attorneys can review every facet of your case to determine where fault lies and hold others accountable for the wrongs that they have done. We are award-winning attorneys who are compassionate and put our clients’ needs first.