Dayton Surgical Error Lawyer

Though medical professionals are required to adhere to a standard set of operating room procedures to prevent surgical mistakes, such errors continue to occur far too often. According to a recent report from the journal Medical Care, surgery patients who are injured as a result of their operation are seven times more likely to die while hospitalized, and far more likely to be readmitted to hospital within 3 months of being discharged. Cardiothoracic surgeries, childbirth surgeries, gastric bypass, laparoscopic intestinal surgery, and plastic surgery procedures have all been implicated in reports of surgical errors.

Ohio law allows patients injured by surgical errors to seek redress through a medical malpractice lawsuit. At Wright & Schulte LLC, our medical malpractice lawyers have successfully represented hundreds of people seriously injured as a result of operating room mistakes, including those involving:

• Surgery performed on the wrong body part
• Surgery performed on the wrong patient
• Wrong surgical procedure performed on a patient
• Surgical implements left in a patient
• Use of unsanitary surgical utensils
• Incorrect incision
• Organ puncture or perforation
• Surgery on wrong organ, wrong site surgery or wrong side surgery
• Delayed surgery
• Prolonged surgery
• Blood typing errors
• Anesthesia errors
• Inadequate post surgical care
• Medication errors
• Excessive scarring

It’s rare for a doctor or hospital to inform a patient or their family when a serious operating room mistake has occurred. If you or a loved one recently had surgery, and your condition has worsened, or if you’ve needed additional procedures, it would be in your best interest consult a lawyer to determine whether malpractice occurred. The medical malpractice lawyers at Wright & Schulte LLC have extensive experience investigating these difficult cases, and will work with a team of top medical experts to determine if you were a victim of a surgical error. They will thoroughly review your surgical records for evidence that deviations in the standards of care for surgical procedures may have caused you harm.

When hospitals and medical professionals are named in malpractice lawsuits, their insurance companies can be expected to mount an aggressive defense. They may also try to convince you to settle a case quickly for less than you deserve in order to limit their financial liability. The medical malpractice attorneys at Wright Schulte always take an equally aggressive stance when negotiating with insurance companies. Insurers are aware of Wright Schulte’s reputation as a tough advocate for surgical error victims, and they know our medical malpractice lawyers are always ready to go to trial if they refuse to negotiate in good faith.