Anesthesia Malpractice Attorneys
in Florida

Anesthesia is a crucial part of many medical treatments and surgeries. When things go wrong, however, patients can be left with serious and potentially life-long complications.

Types of injuries that can be caused by anesthetic errors include:

• Brain damage
• Asphyxia (suffocation) 
• Nerve damage
• Paralysis
• Spinal cord injury
• Stroke
• Heart attacks
• Coma
• Death

Gordon & Partners Law Firm attorneys specialize in Florida anesthesia errors, medical malpractice, and other personal injury claims, and we can help you pursue justice after experiencing harm due to medical negligence. Contact us today to schedule a free review of your case.

The most common causes of anesthesia errors are:

• Medication substitution errors
• Incorrect dosages
• Inexperienced staff
• Time pressure
• Communication problems among the medical team
• Delayed delivery of anesthesia drugs
• Failure to notice or respond to patient distress
• Keeping patients sedated for too long

As your attorneys, we’ll do a thorough investigation into what happened in order to determine what error occurred and who was responsible. If this error was made negligently, we can then pursue a settlement or verdict in order to compensate you for medical expenses, pain and suffering, and other damages.

Our goal as Florida anesthesia malpractice attorneys is to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that one party’s negligent actions led to another party’s harm.
To do this, four things must be true:

1. Someone owed you a duty of care
2. Someone failed to provide their duty of care
3. This failure caused an injury
4. This injury led to damages

In anesthesiology, medical professionals have a duty of care to their patients that involves evaluating a patient’s medical history prior to administering anesthesia, closely monitoring all vital signs while the patient is under anesthesia, and ensuring a safe airway during the procedure, among other things. If they breach this duty, they may be held liable for their actions.

Of course, anesthesiologists are part of a larger medical team overseeing your care. In some cases, other and/or additional parties may be found liable for a patient’s injuries, including other doctors, nurses, or the health facility where the procedure took place.

If you believe that a provider’s duty of care was not met, a Gordon & Partners anesthesia malpractice lawyer in Florida can evaluate all available evidence in support of your claim and, if warranted, take steps to prove negligence and get you the compensation you are rightfully owed.

Various steps that may be involved in this process include:

• Providing you with legal advice and an estimate regarding how much your case is worth
• Thoroughly researching all relevant medical records
• Handling all administrative tasks related to your claim
• Conducting interviews with hospital staff present during your procedure
• Facilitating independent medical evaluations
• Negotiating with insurance to maximize compensation

We work on a contingency fee basis, meaning there are no out-of-pocket costs, and you won’t owe anything until your claim is successful. This allows you to focus on your own health and recovery without the stress of legal bills piling up.

Anesthesia errors are a type of medical malpractice. As such, anesthesia malpractice claims are subject to Florida’s medical malpractice statute of limitations, which gives you two (2) years from the date of injury or discovery of injury to file your claim.

Extensions to the anesthesia error statute of limitation are allowed in cases of fraud or concealment, cases involving children, and cases involving incapacitated adults. But the sooner you contact qualified anesthesia malpractice attorneys in Florida, the sooner you can seek restitution for your losses.