Milwaukee Emergency Room Errors Lawyer
In the health-care industry, there is no busier environment than the emergency room. Unfortunately, emergency rooms are also the site of thousands of errors every year, many of which can result in unnecessary patient harm and even death on the part of negligent or careless doctors and nurses. More than 225,000 people die from medical malpractice-related incidents each year and almost half of those are the result of errors in the numerous emergency rooms across the country.Why do they occur?
Emergency room errors occur every year because of poorly trained staff such as doctors and nurses, understaffed hospital emergency room facilities, and poorly equipped emergency rooms. Resources may also be stretched thin and the health professionals that staff the emergency rooms may be overly tired from too much work. Still, we have the right to expect that if we need to go to an emergency room the health professionals working there will treat us with the highest quality standard of care. When the vital steps in treating a patient are not taken or mistakes are made, emergency room errors take place, often causing serious, permanent, and sometimes fatal injuries.
Common Emergency Room Errors
- Misdiagnosis of serious conditions such as strokes, infections, or heart attacks
- Failure to diagnose serious injuries or diseases
- Delayed diagnosis of serious injuries or diseases
- Misreading medical test results
- Medication mistakes
- Prescription errors
- Omissions errors
- Birth Injuries
- Negligence
- Patient dumping, which occurs if a critically unstable patient is discharged or transferred for financial reasons
