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Birth Injury And Malpractice
Lawyers in Saint John
If you live in Atlantic Canada, our team of experienced birth injury and medical malpractice lawyers is here to help. Our skilled medical malpractice lawyers will fight tirelessly for you and your loved ones. We collaborate with trusted physicians, investigators, and other specialists. Our lawyers have decades of experience investigating medical malpractice cases. You can rely on a professional medical malpractice lawyer in Saint John, New Brunswick, regardless of the circumstances of your medical malpractice case. While compensation cannot undo what occurred to you, it can give financial security and a sense of justice to your family.
Medical malpractice is defined as professional negligence on the part of a medical professional that results in inadequate treatment or injury to a patient. These cases can be complicated, involving neglect, misdiagnosis, surgical errors, pharmaceutical errors, and other concerns. Our medical malpractice lawyers handle all types of medical malpractice cases.
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Common Medical Malpractice Injuries
The lawyers with BIMMA work everyday to advance the rights of people suffering from the serious consequences of medical malpractice in Atlantic Canada. Our medical malpractice lawyers have extensive experience helping individuals in the Maritimes navigate the challenges of bringing a successful legal claim against physicians, nurses, and hospitals, including claims related to the common issues listed below.
Medical Malpractice
Surgical Errors
Surgical errors, which include mislabeled surgical specimens, retained foreign bodies, wrong procedure, wrong site, and wrong-patient errors, are a type of medical error. Medical negligence is widespread and usually involves common forms of surgical errors. Surgical errors are one of the primary causes of avoidable deaths in hospitals, as well as subsequent medical malpractice lawsuits.
Cauda Equina Syndrome And Spinal Stenosis
Where cauda equina syndrome is present, medical malpractice can result in life-altering problems. These problems can have a significant impact on a victim's quality of life. Substantial medical expenses, long-term treatments and rehabilitation, and the overall agony and suffering associated with a disabling ailment are all to be expected. If you have had cauda equina syndrome complications, you should seek the help of our medical malpractice lawyer in Saint John, New Brunswick.
Emergency Room Errors
When a patient visits an emergency room, he or she places entire trust in doctors and healthcare providers, trusting them to appropriately diagnose and treat them. Unfortunately, this is not always the case, and emergency room personnel may act recklessly, resulting in catastrophic patient injury or even death. These are known as emergency room errors and are a form of medical malpractice.
Delayed Or Missed Diagnoses
Diagnostic errors are one of the most prevalent forms of medical errors. This includes incorrectly diagnosing a patient, failing to detect a patient's ailment on time, and failing to diagnose a patient's condition at all. Diagnostic errors of any kind can form the basis of a medical malpractice claim.
Prescription Drug Errors And Pharmaceutical Errors
Pharmaceutical errors occur when inadequate pharmaceutical systems and/or human factors such as weariness, bad environmental conditions, or personnel shortages interfere with prescription, transcribing, administration, dispensing, and monitoring practices, resulting in serious injury, disability, or possibly death. If you have been hurt as a result of a pharmaceutical error, our medical malpractice lawyer in Saint John, New Brunswick, can assist you.
Inadequate Monitoring And Nursing Care
Negligence is defined as the failure or neglect to give care that a reasonable and cautious nurse would have provided in similar situations. Failing to monitor, prescription problems, mistakes with normal operations, and paperwork errors are four prominent examples of nursing negligence. Each of these potential malpractice cases could result in patient harm, sickness, or even death.
Radiology Errors
Misdiagnosis occurs when a radiologist fails to detect indications of significant illnesses or injuries. These incidents involve the failure to detect abnormalities on MRIs, CT scans, and mammograms. Breast and lung cancers are the most frequently overlooked diseases in medical malpractice lawsuits.
Postoperative Complications And Sepsis
Even in circumstances of death, a diagnosis of sepsis or septic shock cannot serve as proof of medical misconduct. However, if the initial infection or occurrence of sepsis happened in a hospital or if it was treated incorrectly, there could be grounds for a medical malpractice claim.
Birth Injuries
Cerebral Palsy
If you believe that a physician or other medical practitioner failed to provide you or your baby with the proper and sufficient treatment expected, resulting in harm, you can bring a medical malpractice claim. Most cerebral palsy medical malpractice lawsuits revolve around medical negligence, causing injuries during birth.
Hypoxic-Ischemic Encephalopathy (HIE)
Hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy, or HIE, is a two-part brain injury that occurs when an infant is deprived of oxygen. As a result of the lack of oxygen, the blood supply to the brain is reduced, and brain cells begin to degenerate. After the oxygen is restored, the already affected brain cells keep on deteriorating.
Brachial Plexus Injuries
If your child has Erb's palsy as a result of medical malpractice, you may be entitled to sue the liable healthcare professionals. Erb's palsy is a birth injury that affects the brachial plexus, a network of nerves that controls arm movement and feeling.
Seizures After Birth
Half of all newborns who experience seizures will develop epilepsy at some point in life. Seizures caused by brain traumas or developmental issues may result in additional complications like cerebral palsy, intellectual impairment, and other neurological illnesses.
Delayed Cesarean-Section (C-Section)
A C-section is a medical procedure that involves the delivery of a baby via a surgical incision in the mother's belly. If a doctor fails to diagnose and conduct the surgery in a timely manner, both mother and baby may suffer long-term complications. Injuries incurred as a result of a delayed cesarean delivery are just one example of how delayed diagnosis is a type of medical malpractice.
Vacuum Or Forceps Delivery
Not all injuries resulting from forceps and vacuum extractors are permanent. You have to prove that your healthcare provider violated the "standard of care" that a reasonable physician would have employed in an identical situation in order to file a medical malpractice claim against them.
Failure To Progress During Labour
Failure to progress, often known as protracted labour, is a widespread occurrence in vaginal delivery. A significant percentage of women have had prolonged labour. It is an important indicator for an emergency cesarean delivery or delivery with equipment like forceps or a vacuum. If a medical professional fails to take the proper action when a patient has prolonged labour, a medical malpractice lawsuit can result.
Metabolic Acidosis
If a child's umbilical cord coils around their neck during pregnancy, labour, or delivery, it might cut off their oxygen supply, leading to metabolic acidosis and other severe complications.
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Inadequate Monitoring and Nursing Care Post 1
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Inadequate Monitoring and Nursing Care Post 2
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Prescription Drug Errors And Pharmaceutical Errors
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