Pittsburgh Emergency Room Mistake Attorneys

One medical emergency should never lead to another one. Unfortunately, many medical errors and mistakes still occur in emergency rooms, including but not limited to releasing patients from the ER prematurely. Flaherty Fardo is experienced in handling malpractice cases involving emergency rooms (ER) mistakes and errors.

Whether it is a misdiagnosis or a surgical error, emergency room physicians are held to the same standard of care as your primary or treating physicians. ER malpractice cases can include:

• Misdiagnoses of problem,
• Delay in treatment,
• Refusal to treat,
• Mistakes during the intake process or triage, and/or
• Administering the wrong medications.

ER Mistakes Happen For a Variety of Reasons

Emergency Room errors and mistakes can happen for a variety of Reasons. Emergency Rooms are stressful environments that require immediate and skillful medical decisions. We are thankful to have emergency rooms and emergency physicians available when they are needed. Unfortunately, many emergency rooms are understaffed, and are not adequately able to handle the patient load.

If a patient is visiting an emergency room, then there should be a sense of urgency to their care. The reality is that most patients end up waiting significant time periods after entering the emergency room before they actually see a physician. This delay period can sometimes aggravate an existing condition, and certain patients suffer severe or additional harm or even death because they were not examined by a physician in a timely manner. Had these patients been properly treated immediately upon their admission to the emergency room, their ultimate injuries may not have occurred.

One of the first steps at the emergency room is the triage assessment. This is where hospital personnel, most often nurses will triage (or assess) a patients condition to determine if immediate treatment is needed or not.

We have experience handling emergency room lawsuits where mistakes were made in the initial triage that caused our clients greater harm.

ER Mistake of Sending Patients Home Too Soon

A common mistake in emergency rooms is not properly diagnosing emergency room patients and discharging the patients without accurately diagnosing the correct medical problem.

Being in an emergency room does not lessen the doctors responsibility to consider all possible differential diagnosis of the patient, and this can include the legal obligation to perform any necessary x-rays, MRI's, or to refer the patient to another medical specialist as appropriate. We have seen too many emergency room doctors fail to order proper medical tests, fail to properly work up the assessment of the patient, and/or prematurely discharge the patient, thus exposing them to greater or increased. harm.

No Fee Unless Recovery

If you or a loved one believes your condition was aggravated because of improper treatment at an emergency room, let us and our physicians review your case. We offer free no obligation consultations by emailing Managing Attorney Noah Fardo directly at npf@pghfirm.com or calling him directly at (412) 855-5511.