Surgical Negligence a Serious Medical Malpractice
Surgical negligence is event in which a mistake had occurred during the surgical procedure. It is when a medical professional provides a substandard surgical care to the patient. There are various examples of the surgical errors.
The different types of surgical errors include the following:
- Surgery on the wrong side or site: When the surgeon operates on the wrong side or site of patient’s body.
- Anesthesia errors: These kinds of errors occurs when there is problem with the dosage administered to the patient.
- Inadequate preoperative preparation: This includes when the provider fails to inform the patient properly about the pros and cons or risks and benefits of the surgery or procedure that a reasonable competent provider would answer under similar circumstance or failing to obtain informed consent or failing to properly prepare the patient before the surgery.
- Surgical instruments errors: This kind of error occurs when provider leaves any foreign object inside the patient body like sponge or instrument (or) by using defective instrument or wrong instrument.
In order to prove surgical negligence patient has to demonstrate that the provider had breached the standard of care that should have been provided by a reasonably competent provider under the similar circumstance. He or she also has to show that the breach had resulted in his or her injuries directly.
Surgical Error Claims
Surgical error claims are filed when a patient or someone close sues a healthcare expert or surgeon for improper care or errors made during an operation that cause the individual discomfort, pain, a deteriorated medical situation, or, in the worst-case scenario, fatality.
Main Causes of Surgical Negligence Claims
- Consciousness of anesthesia
- Organ deterioration
- Injury to the brain
- Injury to the nerves
- Objects discovered inside patients
- Infection
The prevention of surgical negligence:
The prevention of surgical negligence always requires a maximum effort from the team to provide the proper standard of care. Moreover, the updates and advancement in technology is mostly aiming at reducing the number of errors in the surgical negligence but the provider has to stay updated to these advancements as well as the surgical techniques.
The surgical negligence always has had a devastating effect on the patients as well as their families, but one also has to keep in mind all the complications resulting from a surgery may always not be as a result of the negligence. But in case a patient believes he or she has suffered damages due to the providers negligence they have to seek legal advice immediately and proceed accordingly.