Surgical and hospital-acquired infections are a leading cause of serious complications in hospitals and freestanding surgery centers in the United States. In some cases, infection is unpreventable, whether because the body reacts poorly to a procedure or simply due to bad luck. However, infection can also be caused by a hospital’s negligence or a doctor’s mistake.
According to the CDC, healthcare-associated infections are on the rise. In fact, 1 in 25 hospital patients will acquire an infection. In the most tragic cases, a hospital-acquired infection causes death. In other cases, patients must suffer additional surgeries or procedures after the infection sets in, resulting in a longer recovery time and a lengthier hospital stay. Abdominal surgeries carry a higher risk of infection, but the reality is that any surgery can result in a serious and life-threatening infection.
At LawMD, many of our medical malpractice lawyers are also physicians who use their clinical knowledge to pursue results and compensation for the clients we serve. No medical procedure is entirely without risk, and outcomes vary depending on the individual patient, but certain mistakes just should not happen. When they do, we are here to demand answers on behalf of injured patients and their families.
You might be aware that many of the antibiotics we have come to depend on are no longer as effective against infection as they once were. Antibiotic resistance is a growing problem around the world. Each year, about two million people in the U.S. acquire an infectious disease that does not respond well to existing drugs. At least 23,000 Americans die every year as a result of an antibiotic resistance infection.
Researchers are constantly working to find alternative drugs and therapies to fight infectious diseases. In the meantime, it is critical for doctors and hospitals to provide a high level of care to patients during any kind of medical procedure and especially during surgery and throughout the postoperative period.
Many infections can be avoided through proper wound and incision care, good hygiene on the part of medical staff, and best practices for stopping the transmission of infections from one patient to another.
Some of the most common healthcare-associated infections include:
These infections occur for a variety of reasons, from unsterile operating environments to a surgeon leaving a sponge or tool inside a patient during an operation.
The body is designed to exhibit warning signs when something is wrong.
The symptoms of infection include:
When doctors, nurses, and other health care providers fail to intervene, an infection can quickly turn deadly. These cases are devastating for patients and their families, especially when you consider that the majority of these cases could have been prevented with the proper level of care. The elderly are especially vulnerable to health-associated infections, as they may not always be able to advocate for better care on their own behalf.
If you have experienced an infection due to a doctor’s error or a hospital’s negligence, it’s important to contact our Baltimore hospital-acquired infection lawyers right away. Don’t miss your chance to get the compensation you deserve by waiting too long to speak to a law firm. The physician-attorneys at LawMD can help.
WE UNDERSTAND YOUR INJURIES, BECAUSE WE’VE LIKELY TREATED THEM.
Most of our physician-attorneys are either current or past treating doctors in, collectively, a wide range of medical specialties. There is a good chance one or more of our physician attorneys have actually treated medical conditions similar to the ones from which you or your loved one now suffers. That translates into care and understanding as your Counselors, and know-how as your Advocates.
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Any honest medical malpractice attorney will tell you that one of the greatest expenses in a medical malpractice case is having to pay physician experts to study the details of the medical issues in your case and, if necessary, provide testimony at deposition and trial. While even our physician attorneys may also need to hire outside medical experts for your case, our medical know-how allows us to perform a significant amount of the medical analysis necessary for your case in-house which may translate into significant savings at the conclusion of your case.
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Because we have in-house medical know-how, we can evaluate the medical questions in your case and provide answers without a lengthy wait. Our internal process involves getting the issues in your case quickly in front of the right physician attorney who, based on his or her medical experience and training, is most likely to have the answers you seek about whether you have a case and how we might help you get the compensation you deserve to help secure a brighter future for you and for your loved ones.
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