Burbank Surgical Injury Attorney

Surgical injuries are more common than people realize or are willing to recognize.  With most of today’s surgeries, all of the patients acknowledge the risk of surgical injuries to surrounding areas.  During a surgery, the surgeon’s scalpel may accidently or negligently cut a vital organ or other body part.  Surgeons may even operate on the wrong wrist or the wrong arm in which they wouldn’t handle your ailment, and they would cause more damage by operating on the wrong limb or other body part.

Surgical negligence is a form of medical malpractice when the surgical injury goes unnoticed or is ignored, creating even more harm than if the surgical error was correctly remedied .  Surgical negligence is when the doctor or surgeon acts in a manner below the standard of care which is generally accepted of someone in that profession when rendering health care.

After a surgery, a patient may determine whether a surgical error or surgical injury occurred by examining the operation notes.  The notes of your operation must be thoroughly examined by a medical expert as well as a knowledgeable Burbank Surgical Injury Lawyer to determine whether or not the surgeon or doctor deviated from the accepted standard of care and further whether the substandard care was the direct cause of your injury.

Since most people visit hospitals when they are sick, it is to be accepted that people who visit hospitals may become ill with other diseases.  Since this is quite common, the hospitals generally may not be held to be negligent if you or a loved one contracts one of these diseases during surgery.  There is, however, a difference between contracting a common cold or virus and contracting H.I.V. because the hospital failed to run tests on donated blood used in a blood transfusion.  If some infections are not recognized and treated quickly, the infections might easily spread while your body is in a weakened state after your operation and could result in permanent disability or even death.  Thus, every case must be examined to determine the standard of care the hospital should have given you, and ultimately what standard of care they actually provided so the presence of negligence may be determined.  If our Burbank Surgical Injury Lawyers determine that the hospital or surgeon was negligent, we will discuss your options in obtaining compensation for your surgical injuries.

If you or a loved one has been seriously injured in a surgical injury in Burbank Glendale Pasadena, California, or if you believe that you have been injured and want the legal advice of an experienced Medical Injury Attorney, please contact our Burbank Glendale Pasadena Medical Injury Attorneys for a free confidential initial consultation to discuss the facts surrounding your potential Medical Injury Medical Malpractice case.