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Failure to Diagnose:
Becker & Mishkind Co., L.P.A., with offices located in Cleveland and Elyria, Ohio, have experience with many types of medical malpractice cases. If you or someone you know has experienced a permanent and serious personal injury resulting from a medical professional's failure to diagnose, please contact our office.
Medical professionals can be held liable for the following:
- Misdiagnosis
- Failure to Treat
- Delay in Treatment
- Delay in Diagnosis
- Heart Attack
- Cancer Cases
- Diabetes
- Infection
- Kidney, Urinary Tract Diseases
- Pathology/Lab Error
- Radiology: X-Ray Error
Birth Injury:
Birth injury means any brain injury to a child during labor and/or delivery. Its causes include oxygen deprivation (asphyxia), infection, and physical injury resulting from forceps, vacuum extractors or continued labor in the face of cephalopelvic disproportion (CPD). Current technology allows obstetricians to recognize the risk of asphyxia, infection and difficult delivery so that timely diagnosis and early intervention can avoid injury.
During the birth process, newborns can sustain injury to the nerves that serve the shoulder, arm and hand. This generally occurs after the baby’s shoulders become stuck in the birth canal (shoulder dystocia). This neurological condition, called Erb’s Palsy, affects the growth and usefulness of one’s arm. A rarer form of this injury is Klumpke’s palsy which results in hand and eyelid dysfunction. Modern obstetrical medicine has developed safe techniques to relieve shoulder dystocia and avoid these types of injuries.
Cerebral Palsy Injury:
Becker & Mishkind Co., L.P.A., with offices located in Cleveland and Elyria, Ohio, have experience with many types of cerebral palsy cases. Our attorneys have tried over 20 birth injury/cerebral palsy cases.
Neurological injury: Children with cerebral palsy and/or mental retardation may have sustained those injuries as the direct result of obstetrical negligence around the time of birth. Cerebral palsy is a physical condition resulting from brain injury that affects coordination and motor skills.
Anesthesia Negligence:
Medical malpractice injuries can occur when anesthesia is improperly given or not given in a timely manner to a patient during a surgical procedure.
If an anesthesiologist causes injury or death to a patient, damages may be recoverable under the laws of medical malpractice. Most doctors and hospitals carry malpractice insurance, and some states even require that they contribute to a state patient’s compensation fund.
Nursing Home Neglect:
Americans are living longer than ever before. The fastest growing segment in the United States population is the elderly population. As a result of this demographic shift, many elderly Americans have become residents of nursing homes during their final years. As many of these nursing homes are under-funded and understaffed, a disturbing incidence of neglect and abuse has been reported. Injuries sustained by nursing home residents due to neglect and abuse often involve the inappropriate use of physical restraints, joint contractors, overuse of sedatives, unnecessary use of urinary catheters, loss of mobility, pressure sores, lack of nutrition and weight loss.
If you have been a victim of medical malpractice, or have lost a loved one as the result of wrongful death in Columbus, Ohio, or the surrounding cities and counties of Miami, Champaign, Clark, Madison, Franklin, Pickaway, Fairfield, Perry, Muskingum, Morgan, Guernsey, Nobel, Washington, Harrison, Belmont or Monroe, please contact medical malpractice Attorneys Becker & Mishkind at 866-435-1682, or complete the contact form on this site to begin your free consultation with an experienced medical malpractice lawyer.
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