Emergency Room Errors

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trip to the emergency room is often the result of a life-threatening accident or sudden health event such as a heart attack, stroke, or dire symptoms of unknown cause. During a medical emergency, we rely on strangers to save our lives, not having the opportunity to choose our doctors or even the facility. Most will do their best to provide proper and timely care, and in some cases, death is unavoidable. Unfortunately, many emergency room patients suffer unnecessary harm or death due to mistakes and carelessness in the emergency room.

Hospital duty – preventing errors

The emergency room is a fast-paced, high stress environment where the staff must be prepared for anything. Hospitals have a duty to minimize the risk of error by implementing policies and procedures, as well as hiring and training practices, which will keep things running as smoothly as possible. Hospital negligence that can lead to emergency room errors includes:

Failure to maintain an adequate number of doctors and support staff per shift
Poor patient tracking procedures
Poor record keeping procedures
Poor medication administration procedures
Unsanitary conditions
Failure to screen doctors and support staff
Inadequate training
Inadequate facilities
Unethical or illegal policies

Common emergency room errors

Errors in the emergency room can have many degrees of damaging results including ongoing damage due to lack of treatment, unnecessary harm caused by inappropriate treatments, and even death. Misdiagnosed patients are often sent home only to experience a more serious or fatal emergency later. Common emergency room errors include:

Failure to fully evaluate a patient
Delayed diagnosis, misdiagnosis, failure to diagnose
Failure to monitor a patient
Failure to fully treat a patient
Delayed treatment
Medication errors
Surgical errors
Patient dumping
Laboratory errors
Negligence
Unsanitary practices
Contaminated blood transfusions

Emergency room errors are medical malpractice

There is no guarantee that you or a loved one will have a favorable outcome or survive a medical emergency even with the best of care. Knowing this, many people do not realize that they have been victims of medical malpractice when things go wrong in the emergency room.

Hospitals and their insurance companies will do everything in their power to maintain the illusion that your injury was an unavoidable consequence of your emergency. This can be confusing to patients and loved ones. Determining and proving that emergency room error caused or worsened an injury related to the original medical emergency requires the expertise of an experienced emergency room error attorney who knows how to properly investigate your case.

If you believe that you have been injured or lost a loved one due to emergency room error in Oklahoma, please contact Stipe, Harper, Laizure, Uselton, Belote, Maxcey & Thetford, experienced emergency room error attorneys today. We will schedule a free consultation in our McAlester, Oklahoma City, and Tulsa, Oklahoma office. We work on a contingency basis, so you will have no out-of-pocket expenses in proving your case.

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McAlester Office
343 E. Carl Albert Pkwy.
McAlester, OK 74501

Phone: (918) 423-0421
or (800) 658-1596
Fax: (918) 423-0266

Oklahoma City Office
525 Central Park Dr., 101
Oklahoma City, OK 73105

Phone: (405) 524-2268
or (800) 299-7299
Fax: (405) 525-3231

Tulsa Office
2417 E. Skelly Dr.
Tulsa, OK 74170

Phone: (918) 749-0749
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Disclaimer: The information contained throughout this site is meant to generally inform the reader about our areas of practice, including medical negligence. This information is not meant to be taken as legal advice and nothing on this site establishes a lawyer / client relationship. Our accident lawyers provide legal assistance in the Tulsa area including Oklahoma City, McAlester and Norman, Oklahoma.