WHAT IS EMERGENCY ROOM MALPRACTICE & NEGLIGENCE?
Emergency room malpractice encompasses a range of critical issues, including misdiagnoses, delayed diagnoses, and failures to diagnose injuries or illnesses promptly. Regrettably, medical errors within hospital emergency rooms are prevalent and can lead to severe outcomes. The fast-paced and diverse environment of New Jersey or Philadelphia emergency rooms often contributes to higher error rates in emergency medicine care compared to other medical specialties. Research reveals that almost half of all medical malpractice injuries in NJ or PA occur within emergency rooms, underscoring the importance of vigilance and precision in emergency medical care to ensure patient safety and well-being.
Common Emergency Room Errors Include:
- Failure to take an adequate history
- Failure to perform a thorough physical examination
- Failure to consider life threatening causes of the patient’s presentation
- Failure to collect data or perform tests to rule out possible life threatening conditions
- Reaching conclusions about a patient in a hasty manner, without carefully considering alternative, dangerous medical conditions which could be present
- Delayed diagnosis, misdiagnosis, or failure to diagnose
- Delay in performing testing and treatment
- Failure to consult specialists in a timely manner
- Laboratory errors
- Patient dumping
- Failure to properly monitor a patient
- Failure to fully treat a patient
- Inappropriate medications or improper doses
- Contaminated blood transfusions
- Surgical errors
If you or a loved one has experienced death or a serious injury which you think may have been because of a hospital malpractice you may be entitled to compensation, including coverage for one or all of the following:
- Rehabilitation
- Current and future medical bills
- Loss of companionship
- Long-term disability
- Loss of enjoyment of life
- Current and future loss of wages
- Pain and suffering
- Long-term care expenses
- Burial expenses
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