Stages where surgical errors can occur?
The following list is not exhaustive, and your specific case may not be listed below. We are here to listen and give you sound, qualified advice on your case, and our team of medical negligence solicitors understands that each person’s experience is different and to be treated with empathy and care throughout the entire legal process. Many of our clients who have suffered surgical errors experience months and sometimes years of physical and/or psychological discomfort or pain and are left, in some cases, with severe scarring and/or disfigurement due to medical malpractice.
- Intraoperative Care
- Wrong Site Surgery (where the incorrect item is removed or operated on)
- Wrong Side Surgery (where the opposite organ is removed in error)
- Foreign Objects Left during Surgery
- Preoperative Care (Marking Surgery Site, Anesthesia errors, etc.)
- Postoperative Care
- Multiple Phases of Care
- Multiple Clinicians
- Delay in Diagnosis
System Factors
- Inexperience
- Lack of Technical Competence
- Communication Breakdown
Results of surgical errors medical malpractice
- Scarring
- Depression
- Pain
- Psychological Issues
- Psychical limitations to movement
- Loss of Earnings
- Continuing Side Effects
- Additional Surgical Procedures to correct errors
- Significant or Major Injury
- Death (in severe cases)
The claim process
1. Consult our medical negligence solicitor
You should speak to an experienced team of Medical Negligence Solicitors as soon as possible if you think you were not given adequate or appropriate medical care, which results in you sustaining an injury or illness.
2. We obtain your medical records
After the consultation with your medical negligence solicitor, he/she will request access to your medical records and engage an independent medical expert to assess your records. The purpose of engaging an independent expert is to establish whether there was any negligence on the medical professional’s part.
3. The medical negligence litigation process
Where the independent medical expert is of the professional opinion that medical negligence did occur, upon your instructions, your solicitor will begin issuing legal proceedings in Court against the medical professional and/or hospital.
Statute of Limitation
The legal time limit to make a medical negligence claim is two years from the date of injury or date of knowledge that the injury or illness resulted from medical negligence. For children/minors, the time limit expires two years after their 18th birthday. You may contact a solicitor to discuss your case and advise you of the statute of limitations applicable to your case.
