Albuquerque Medical Malpractice Law Blog

Medications have to be handled correctly when they are being administered to patients. In a hospital setting, the in-house pharmacy provides the medications to the nurses who give them to the patients. For many patients, the drugs they are given in the hospital are the same ones that they take at home. This gives patients a safety advantage since they know what their own medication should look like. However, there might be some instances in which there are minor changes between what they take at home and what they are getting at the hospital. A smart patient will ask questions about unfamiliar-looking medications to make sure they are getting the right drugs.

There are times when pharmacists, nurses or doctors will make errors regarding these medications -- and patients aren't always able to prevent mistakes. The wrong medication puts patients at risk of suffering negative reactions that can be severe. This is never something that hospitalized individuals should have to deal with on top of whatever condition has them in the hospital in the first place.

Every patient who has to have surgery hopes that the surgeon doesn't make any surgical errors during the procedure. Unfortunately, surgeons are humans, and they will make mistakes at some point. One thing that patients have to decide is whether they believe the issue is an error or mistake.

Many surgical errors are considered major enough that they should always be prevented. These are known as never events, which means that they should never happen during the course of a surgeon's medical career.

Parents want their children to succeed in school so that they can thrive in life. Unfortunately, some children don't have this option because they suffered a traumatic brain injury (TBI) at the hands of another person. This might occur due to a car wreck, a near-drowning, medical error or a host of other types of incidents. In all of these cases, there is a chance that the child will have lingering learning disabilities.

One primary way that a TBI might impact a child's ability to learn is that their memory can be affected. This can involve their short-term memory, long-term memory or both. When a child has trouble remembering what they learn in class, they won't be able to later apply these concepts.

The labor and delivery process isn't easy on the woman or the baby. There are times when one or both of them might suffer an injury. Some injuries are considered part and parcel of the process but others are the result of medical malpractice. You likely don't have to do anything about the former; however, seeking compensation is possible with the latter.

Unfortunately, one of the most common birth injuries is a head injury. This can be as minor as scratches on the scalp and head molding to fractures of the skull and bleeding on the brain. The cause of the brain injury is what will dictate what you can do about the situation.