/EINPresswire.com/ Failure to act in a timely manner to prevent further health complications is just one of the many different medical errors that commonly place the health and safety of patients at risk.
Recently, thirteen hospitals in California were fined by the state for medical errors at their facilities. One of the most egregious of these errors involved a patient who had been admitted for complications relating to a serious cardiovascular condition. The patient was placed on a heart monitor, and doctors were supposed to be alerted by hospital staff if the monitor registered more than 120 heartbeats per minute. However, nurses ignored the alarms on multiple occasions when the patient’s heart rate went over this limit, and he subsequently died as a result of this negligence.
Failure to act in a timely manner to prevent further health complications is just one of the many different medical errors that commonly place the health and safety of patients at risk. Other common errors, including operating on the wrong patient, operating on the wrong body part, prescribing the wrong medication, failure to properly diagnose serious conditions, and leaving behind surgical tools in body cavities, can all have an equally disastrous impact on a patient’s life.
For those who are the victims of medical errors, the impact on the rest of their life can be monumental. Aside from the pain and suffering caused by the injury itself, considerable future medical care may be necessary to ameliorate the error’s damage. For this reason, the victims of medical errors may be eligible to file a medical malpractice lawsuit against the offending party.
Additionally, medical errors can have devastating effects on the families of victims, especially if the error in question results in death. In these cases, an individual’s surviving family members may be able to take legal action to cover the many losses that arise from the untimely death of a loved one. The Pennsylvania medical malpractice lawyers of Lowenthal & Abrams, P.C., are prepared to help those who are facing this, or other difficult situations, related to medical errors.
Lowenthal & Abrams, P.C., is a personal injury law firm based in Pennsylvania, with offices in Philadelphia, New Jersey, and New York. To learn more about what these attorneys can do to help the victims of medical errors, contact them today at 215-238-1130.
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