Experienced Help For Emergency Room Errors
Every day, people go to the emergency room for their aches, pains and injuries. They entrust their ailments and lives to the emergency room doctors and nurses. Unfortunately, those doctors and nurses can see a lot of patients with a lot of symptoms and injuries in a short period of time. Emergency rooms can be very stressful workplaces in the health care profession, often leading to errors.
At Rittgers Rittgers & Nakajima, our attorneys help people who were hurt in emergency rooms across Ohio, including in Cincinnati, Lebanon, West Chester and Oxford.
Emergency Room Errors In Butler County And Elsewhere Can Cause A Variety Of Injuries
Hospitals that are understaffed or emergency rooms that are not well equipped may become the sites of catastrophic or fatal injuries caused by medical errors. There are many ways that medical errors may occur in emergency rooms. Following are several such errors:
- Medication errors
- Prescription errors
- Omissions errors
- Failure to diagnose
- Misdiagnosis
- Negligence
- Patient “dumping”
- Nursing negligence
- Ischemic and hemorrhagic strokes
When standard practices for treating an emergency room patient are overlooked, an emergency room error such as those listed above may result.
Get Help Now
Our medical malpractice attorneys at Rittgers Rittgers & Nakajima are qualified and dedicated lawyers who have experience representing patients who were victims of emergency room errors. Call our offices today at 513-496-0134 or send us an email.