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Negligence Cases in the News: Malpractice

Negligence Cases in the News

Personal Injury — Malpractice

In a recent blog we discussed that a common theme in medical malpractice cases is failure to diagnose leading to a significant injury or death. As pointed out, a serious and common gynecological problem which sometimes goes undiagnosed is ectopic pregnancy. When timely to diagnose an ectopic pregnancy can be resolved by a salpingostomy. This is a surgery to remove the fetus from the falliopian tube before it grows so large as to cause a rupture. A ruptured falliopian tube can cause death through internal bleeding and or diminished fertility. Medical literature relates that a pregnancy in the falliopian tube is a true medical emergency and that every attempt should be made to remove the fetus before the tube is damaged.

The doctor or emergency room staff must maintain a high degree of suspicion for ectopic pregnancy in young, sexually active, women who are presenting signs of pain, cramps, bleeding, nausea, and dizziness. These warning sign in conjunction with a detailed history may suggest an abnormal pregnancy. In that case, the pregnancy can be confirmed by simple blood or urine tests. If confirmed, an immediate referral to an OBGYN specialist is called for, as well as an ultrasound, to see if there is, in fact, an abnormal pregnancy.

Ectopic pregnancy (tubal pregnancy) although a true medical emergency, if properly handled, can be successfully treated.

[Guy Vining practices personal injury law from his Metro-Detroit office in Taylor, Michigan. He has represented clients in personal injury actions for over 25 years in such areas as: car, boat, motorcycle, and truck accidents; slip, trip, and falls including black ice and defective design; medical and dental malpractice, denial of insurance benefits for wages, medical and home assistance to automobile accident victims.]

Negligence Cases in the News: Hospital Malpractice Cases

Negligence Cases in the News:

Hospital Malpractice Cases

The Buffalo News reported recently a distressing story. It has been alleged by several citizens that a local hospital caused them to become infected with hepatitis. Specifically, in a suit filed each alleges that the source of the disease was the hospital staff inappropriately reusing surgical needles that had been used on other patients, a definite cause of hospital malpractice.

Generally speaking, it is well known that hospitals, because of ill patients, can be a dirty environment from which a patient can contract a generalized infection. Its a risk, in other words, that can not be eliminated. For this reason, the usual medical negligence or hospital malpractice case will be dismissed, so long as, the hospital is able to establish that it implements industry approved sanitation and sterilization processes.

On the other hand, where a discrete source of infections can be established based upon a violation of industry standards, and then an injured patient may have a cause of action. Certainly if it was proven or admitted that needles were reused without sterilization, that could be a discrete cause of an infection. Another common scenario for either hospital negligence, or even hospital malpractice, is the failure to remove all instruments, bandages, or gauze after a surgery. These foreign objects are many times the source of post surgical failure to heal, pain, and infection.

Guy Vining, an experienced personal injury attorney, in metro-Detroit, maintains his office in Taylor, Michigan where he serves the downriver communities of Monroe, South Rockwood, Gibraltar, Brownstown Township, Grosse Ile, Woodhaven, Trenton, Southgate, Riverview, Allen Park, Lincoln Park, Dearborn, Dearborn Heights, Westland, Wayne, and Ecorse. If you or a family member or friend would like a no-obligation, no cost, consultation/financial analysis, just call or Email Guy Vining of Vining Law Group, P.L.C. to schedule a meeting.

Personal Injury Cases in the News: Medical Malpractice

Personal Injury in the News:
Medical Malpractice

 

The Toledo Blade recently reported a suit by an Ohio resident against a hospital which allegedly failed to diagnose bleeding in the patient’s skull. The allegation is that the undiagnosed condition resulted in stroke and physical disability.

 

A common type of medical malpractice case is the “failure to diagnose,” or the “failure to monitor” case. The pattern is that illnesses have various abnormal presenting signs which need to be considered through a process of differential diagnosis to determine and treat the cause. The medical professionals are supposed to be acquainted with the various abnormal signs and develop a differential diagnosis of what the cause possibly is and then perform tests to rule them in or out. A missed diagnosis is a very serious matter, and can result in serious injury or death.

 

As an example, consider the condition of ectopic pregnancy. In years past, Guy Vining represnted several victims of this conditions. An ectopic pregnancy is the development of a fetus outside of the uterus, usually into a fallopian tube. The warning signs include swelling and extreme pain in the patient. The risk is extreme, too, because if the fetus is not timely removed, the falliopian tube may rupture leading to the patient’s death by bleeding. The practitioners therefore must have a high index of suspicion for ectopic pregnancy when presented with a young woman and these symptoms. Appropriate care would include taking a history of sexual activity, last menses, ordering a pregnancy test and an ultrasound.

 

As earlier mentioned, if the diagnosis is not made, the rupture can lead to loss of the fallopian tube or even death. If you or a loved one have suffered the loss of a fallopian tube or another serious personal injury because of the failure to make a medical diagnosis, you may have have a compensible loss. Be sure to promptly get advice from a qualified attorney in regard to your personal injury.

 

[Guy Vining practices personal injury law from his Metro-Detroit office in Taylor, Michigan. He has represented clients in personal injury actions for over 25 years in such areas as: car, boat, motorcycle, and truck accidents; slip, trip, and falls including black ice and defective design; medical and dental malpractice, denial of insurance benefits for wages, medical and home assistance to automobile accident victims.]

About the Vining Law Group, P.L.C.


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