Phoenix Hospital Malpractice Lawyers
The whole purpose of a hospital is to save lives, treat disease and ensure the health and safety of its patients. However, recent studies have shown that a shocking number of people are injured or killed every year because of medical errors in hospitals.
One of the most common types of hospital errors is the failure to properly monitor a patient. When doctors, nurses and other health care professionals forget to check on patients, neglect to put on heart monitors, or fail to respond to alarms, patients can suffer life-altering injuries and innocent lives can be lost.
If you or someone you love has been hurt because of medical malpractice, you should strongly consider speaking with an attorney about your legal options. Contact us online or call us at 602-903-3083 to discuss your claim for injury or wrongful death caused by inadequate patient monitoring.
At the Law Office of Barry E. Lewin, we are committed to helping people who have been injured by medical malpractice. Our attorneys always work hard to secure full and fair compensation for victims of inadequate patient monitoring and hospital negligence.
Failure to Monitor Patients on Pain Medication
Sometimes patients in extreme pain are given large doses of painkillers, such as IV morphine, Fentanyl, Vicodin, Percocet and Methadone. However, narcotics and other pain medications can depress respiration and cause a patient to stop breathing. Because of this, patients who are receiving large doses of pain medication should generally have their heart rhythm, respiration, blood pressure and oxygenation monitored. Any failure to do so may constitute medical malpractice.
Other Patient Monitoring Errors in Hospitals
Doctors, nurses and other medical professionals sometimes miss changes in a patient's condition or make other mistakes that can cause very serious harm, including:
- Failing to take vital signs
- Turning off alarms on monitors
- Ignoring alarms or not responding to alarms quickly enough
- Failing to regularly check on a patient via remote patient monitoring
- Failing to closely monitor a patient's condition in the intensive care unit (ICU)
- Failing to watch for signs of infection, bleeding, or other complications during post operative care
- Failing to monitor bedridden patients for bedsores or pressure ulcers
Contact Us for Aggressive, Compassionate Representation in Hospital Malpractice Cases
If you suspect that you or a loved one was harmed because of a mistake in the hospital, contact us or call us at 602-903-3083 to schedule a free initial consultation. The lawyers at our firm will provide straight answers to your questions and work hard to help you discover what went wrong.
