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• Birth Injuries
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Wrongful Death Lawsuits

• Filing a Massachusetts Wrongful Death Lawsuit Against a Doctor (Part A)
• Filing a Massachusetts Wrongful Death Lawsuit Against a Doctor (Part B)

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Anesthesia Errors Due to Negligence (Part B)

Signs of Negligence in Anesthesia Errors

Because errors in practice can result in severe injury or death, anesthesiologists are held to a high standard of care. Continuous monitoring of patients and a thorough knowledge of drug interactions and reactions are required of anesthesiologists. This makes it easier to know when they are not performing their duties.

Mistakes made in administering general anesthesia can be:

• Immediately detected and corrected
  
• Immediately detected but irreversible
  
• Detected late, causing some degree of injury
  
• Undetected until injury or death occur
  
  

In addition, inadequately preparing a patient for surgery can be considered negligent grounds for a malpractice claim. If your provider did not take a complete medical history or fully inform you about preoperative procedures, negligence may be a factor.

You will need professional advice to determine whether anesthesia dosage, timing, monitoring or interaction with other medicines caused your injuries. You may experience persistent coughing, talking or swallowing; muscle or joint soreness; or mental symptoms such as memory lapses. If inadequate anesthesia was the cause, mental or physical stress from awareness during surgery may have resulted.

It can be difficult for you to determine whether someone else is responsible for causing your ongoing anxiety, muscle or joint pain, or memory problems that persist after surgery. Separating possible anesthesia errors from surgical stress or mistakes may require a professional opinion. Before seeing the same or another health care provider, you should contact a personal injury attorney about how best to proceed. If you do file a lawsuit, any other actions you take in relation to the case could damage it rather than support it.

If you suspect negligence on the part of staff, consider how the criteria apply to your case so you can brief your attorney. With the supporting information, legal counsel can tell you if you have a case.

When you are interviewing personal injury attorneys ask critical questions, like: how long have you been practicing; what is the largest settlement or verdict you've obtained, and do you have experience with medical malpractice cases? The Law Office of Thomas M. Kiley, located in Andover, Massachusetts takes time when speaking with you about your case and works with you on a contingent fee basis so there are NO FEES unless our trained personal injury lawyers wins your case. Call now for a FREE evaluation of your case - 1-800-410-2769.

Massachusetts personal injury lawyer, Thomas M. Kiley, is a member of the Massachusetts Bar Association and is a respected member of the American Association for Justice and the Massachusetts Academy of Trial Attorneys.

The personal injury attorneys at the Law Office of Kiley Law Group are dedicated to helping the victims of:

• Car, motorcycle, truck, van or bus accident
• Single vehicle accidents such as SUV or 15-passenger van rollovers
• Pedestrian accidents such as a hit and run
• Defective products such as ineffective airbags or seatbelts, prescription drugs with unpublicized side-effects, or hazardous children's toys
• Child injury and child abuse such as negligence
• Birth injuries such as trauma during labor or cerebral palsy

We Serve Clients Across the State of Massachusetts
The firm's headquarters are in Andover, MA and serves the following cities in Massachusetts: Boston, Danvers, Haverhill, Lawrence, Lowell, Methuen, Middleton, Reading, and Salem, MA and Salem, New Hampshire.