Surgical errors—wrong-site surgery, retained instruments, complications from negligence—should never happen. If a surgeon's mistake changed your life, learn what legal options you have.
Expert information to help you understand your rights and options
Surgical errors including wrong-site surgery, retained instruments, and anesthesia mistakes cause preventable injuries. Surgical malpractice claims hold surgeons, anesthesiologists, and hospitals accountable. Learn about surgical error lawsuits and proving operating room negligence.
Anesthesia errors including dosing mistakes, failure to monitor, and intubation problems cause brain damage, awareness during surgery, and death. Anesthesiologists owe patients the highest standard of care. Learn about anesthesia malpractice claims and proving negligence.
Surgical teams leave sponges, instruments, and equipment inside patients thousands of times annually, causing infection, pain, and additional surgery. Retained objects are clear evidence of negligence. Learn about retained object claims and proving surgical team failure.
Robotic surgery complications include burns, perforations, and uncontrolled bleeding from equipment malfunction or operator error. Both surgeons and manufacturers may face liability. Learn about robotic surgery injury claims and pursuing responsible parties.
Surgical site infections result from contaminated instruments, inadequate sterilization, or poor post-operative care. These preventable infections cause serious complications and death. Learn about surgical infection claims and proving infection resulted from negligence.
Surgical procedures can damage nerves through cutting, stretching, compression, or thermal injury—causing numbness, weakness, or chronic pain. Some nerve damage is unavoidable but much is preventable. Learn about surgical nerve injury claims and proving operative negligence.
Wrong-site surgery—operating on the wrong side, wrong limb, or even wrong patient—is a never event that should never happen. These errors indicate fundamental safety protocol failures. Learn about wrong-site surgery claims and establishing clear liability.