Anesthesia Errors

Medical Malpractice Lawyer: Anesthesia Errors

When you need surgery, you entrust your life not only to the surgeon but also to the anesthesiologist and nurse anesthetist. While anesthesia does not cause problems for patients in most surgeries, preventable anesthesia errors do occur.

About five or six patients die from anesthesia errors in every 1 million anesthetic administrations; many more are seriously injured. Those who survive anesthesia errors can suffer permanent brain damage.

Anesthesia errors can be caused by inadequate preoperative investigation of possible risk factors or by administering too much or not enough anesthetic.

Legal Help for the Injured

If you have been injured or if someone you love died due to an anesthesia error, please contact an attorney at the Law Offices of David E. Fink. We represent clients who were injured while undergoing surgery in hospitals, surgical centers and clinics. Anesthesia errors can occur during dental surgery, such as wisdom teeth extraction or plastic surgery.

Anesthesiologists are doctors who specialize in anesthesiology. These highly paid professionals are expensive for hospitals, but essential in order to perform surgery. In order to reduce costs for hospitals, the anesthesiologist is typically not present during an entire surgical procedure. Shortly after they administer the anesthetic, they turn the job of monitoring the patient over to a nurse anesthetist and then go to another operating room to begin another procedure.

When Something Goes Wrong

When something goes wrong, the nurse anesthetist calls the anesthesiologist back into the operating room. Often, by the time the appropriate medical expert arrives on the scene it is too late to prevent significant injury or death due to an anesthesia error.

Our law firm has won compensation for clients in medical malpractice claims involving anesthesia error. In most of these cases, the anesthesiologist left the operating room within 15 minutes after the anesthetic was administered.

It costs you nothing to learn whether you have a valid medical malpractice claim. The initial consultation is free, and you will pay no attorney's fees or expenses unless we win monetary compensation for the damages you have suffered. To discuss your anesthesia error case, please do not hesitate to contact an attorney at the Law Offices of David E. Fink today. Located in Baltimore, we represent clients throughout Maryland.