Sacramento Surgical Injury Lawyers

Medical Malpractice Attorneys in Sacramento, CA

Injured as a result of a surgical error in Sacramento, California? Consult a Sacramento medical malpractice lawyer or attorney at our firm as soon as possible!

While any surgical procedure poses potential hazards, it is quite devastating when surgical injury occurs, especially when it stems from surgical negligence.  One of the most common types of medical malpractice claims is surgical negligence.  A surgeon’s knife can slip or a surgeon cuts the wrong area and fails to recognize the error and correct it.  Things can occur during surgery that can cause severe affects on a patient and when surgical injury is a result of negligence, then patients harmed do have a right to recovery. 

Surgical errors are much more common than many individuals tend to realize.  Thousands of surgical errors occur each year with many resulting in permanent damage to the body, including organ damage, brain damage, heart problems, and unfortunately, even death.  While many surgical errors do occur before or during surgery, errors also occur after surgery in the post-operative stage, including failing to diagnose a complication or problem that is a result of the surgery itself.  Sometimes surgeons are reluctant to admit that something went wrong and that the patient requires an immediate re-operation.  Post-operative surgical errors can lead to infection, sepsis, and other potential life-threatening occurrences.   

• Cutting the wrong site area and failing to correct the error
• Leaving surgical instruments inside the body after surgery
• Performing an unneeded surgery (misdiagnosis)
• Performing surgery on the wrong patient

Proving that surgical injury occurred as a result of negligence can be a difficult task.  While many times surgical errors are apparent, medical records must be carefully examined in order to establish whether or not the medical professional deviated from medical standards of care which caused a surgical injury to occur.  In addition, experts will need to be consulted in order to help establish negligence. 

Proving surgical injury occurred out of negligence is not an easy task, especially because most often the only witnesses to the error are the medical staff, who are often reluctant to admit or testify to the error(s) that may have occurred.  Nonetheless, negligent parties should be held accountable for their actions and it is important that you do not fight the battle of proving negligence alone. 

Sacramento Surgical Injury Attorneys

At the Sacramento Medical Malpractice Law Firm, our attorneys have extensive experience in representing those who have been injured as a result of surgical negligence.  Our highly-skilled Sacramento medical malpractice lawyers work closely with a carefully chosen team of medical experts who can help to uncover evidence of medical malpractice.  When you work with our firm, your Sacramento medical malpractice lawyer will thoroughly examine patient records, the surgeon’s history, the hospital’s history, and more in order to uncover evidence of negligence.

Call us today and let a Sacramento medical malpractice attorney at our firm help you obtain justice for your injuries!