Common Types of Surgical Errors
Surgical malpractice can occur before, during, or after a patient’s surgical procedure and may include mishaps such as:
- Failing to warn the patient of potential side effects and complications
- Failing to diagnose a dangerous medical condition during surgery
- Failing to prevent or fix complications during surgery
- Performing surgery on the wrong body part (wrong-site surgery)
- Performing surgery on the wrong patient
- Leaving a medical instrument inside a patient’s body
- Damaging a patient’s healthy organs during surgery
- Anesthesia errors during surgery
- Inadequate follow up care
- And more