Ohio Medical Negligence Lawyers Wrong site surgeries are all too common despite efforts to minimize their occurrence through a standardized “time out” before surgery. The use of a timeout to identify the patient by name, date of birth, procedure, anatomy (including marking the site and side if applicable), patient position, relevant radiology result, antibiotic administration [...]
Medical Malpractice Lawyer, Cleveland OH Surgical fires occur with some frequency in Ohio hospitals and surgery centers. Surgical fires are common enough that the Joint Commission, an independent, nonprofit organization that sets safety standards and accredits hospitals, published a Sentinel Alert in 2003 titled “Preventing Surgical Fires.” Despite that, in 2012, the FDA published another [...]
A surgical error may carry serious consequences. However, what happens when a patient develops a complication of surgery and later learns that the surgery was unnecessary in the first place? This scenario is more common than you may think. We have seen aggressive promotion of lucrative surgeries even when the indication to perform the surgery [...]
