Surgical Errors
Medical Malpractice: Surgery and Procedural Errors
When surgeons and other medical professionals fail to follow standard procedures or operate without due caution, a routine surgery can turn life-threatening or even be fatal. The medical malpractice attorneys at Gerash, Toray & Gerash have an established record of holding providers accountable for their surgical, diagnostic and therapeutic errors. In fact, Dr. Eric Steiner, a physician-attorney with over 18 years of medical experience, leads our medical negligence practice.
Medical negligence litigation is complex and hotly contested by medical practitioners and health care facilities. Our Denver, Colorado law firm has the financial resources, technical medical knowledge and demonstrated results to handle these difficult cases.
Not every surgical error constitutes malpractice, and injuries must be permanent, severe or fatal to justify the substantial investment of resources necessary to bring these lawsuits. Let us determine if you have a viable claim in a free case evaluation. We serve the Denver Metro area and all of Colorado.
Preventable Surgical Errors
Before, during and after a surgical procedure, physicians and staff have established protocols and cross-checks to prevent injurious mistakes. We have demonstrated in numerous cases how surgeons, radiologists, anesthesiologists or nurses deviated from professional standards or simply botched the job in a variety of procedures including:
- Catheter injuries — improper insertion or use of catheters can injure ducts, blood vessels, damage nerves and even introduce air into the bloodstream that may lead to a leakage, bleeding, heart attack, stroke or embolism.
- Surgery errors — a surgeon's scalpel may nick arteries or sever nerves or tendons, causing dangerous bleeding or permanent loss of function.
- Wrong operations — it is rare that surgeons operate on or remove the wrong body part, but when it happens it is devastating — and usually the result of pre-operative negligence on behalf of surgical staff.
- Foreign objects — leaving surgical tools, sponges and other foreign materials inside the patient may cause infection, internal bleeding and nerve damage.
- Anesthesia errors — improperly administering general, regional or local anesthetic can cause severe or permanent brain and/or nerve damage.
- Post-surgical negligence — nurses and operating physicians have a duty to follow up and monitor post-operative patients for any sign of hemorrhage, infection, embolisms, respiratory problems, blood clots, cardiac distress or other life-threatening complications of surgery.
Attorney Eric Steiner is Of Counsel to our firm, and he is also a licensed physician. His medical insights are invaluable in our surgical error malpractice cases. Dr. Steiner assists in evaluating claims and coordinating the investigation into the negligence. He gives the accomplished trial lawyers of Gerash, Toray & Gerash access to top experts nationwide who can testify on specific surgical protocols and breaches of those same protocols.
Our team is committed to securing full compensation for surgery-related injury or wrongful death. Contact us if you suspect medical negligence.
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