Updates and Insights: Hospital Negligence
- The Relevance of Substance Abuse Among Healthcare Professionals in Medical Malpractice Cases
Dec 21, 2024
Substance Abuse Occurs in Every Profession, Including Among Doctors, Nurses, and Others who work in the Medical Field, Often Leading to Severe Harm for Patients Across all professions, about 10% of full-time workers have a substance addiction, whether they abuse alcohol or drugs. However, the top three professions with the highest rates of addiction problems are food service workers, attorneys, and healthcare workers. In fact, doctors are more likely to abuse prescription drugs than patients...Read More - Filing a Lawsuit after MRI Malpractice in New Jersey
Oct 27, 2023
A doctor may have recommended an MRI if you reported head, neck, shoulder, knee, or back pain. Healthcare professionals use this scan to diagnose and treat a patient’s problems with parts of their body. Magnetic Resonance Imaging, or MRI, is an imaging technology that uses a computer, radio waves, and magnetic fields to produce three-dimensional pictures of a patient’s insides, including organs and tissue. The technology is sophisticated enough to detect molecules in the body’s tissue. Fundamentals...Read More - Wrong Site Surgery Cases
Jul 22, 2022
New Jersey Medical Malpractice Attorneys Helping Injured Victims of Wrong Site Surgery Wrong site surgery may occur when a surgeon operates on the wrong side of the body, the wrong body part, the wrong patient, or on the correct side at the wrong level. All of these preventable mistakes can lead to serious consequences for victims. As unimaginable as it may seem, surgeons operate on the wrong body party more often than you believe. As...Read More - Organ Failure due to Medical Malpractice: When You can File a Lawsuit
Dec 10, 2021
Humans are complex beings. Their internal systems interconnect and affect one another. One or more organs may weaken or malfunction among the six central systems, namely, the cardiovascular, respiratory, renal, neurologic, hepatic, and hematologic. When one organ fails, it typically causes problems throughout the body. And when multiple organs fail, the chances for survival grow slim. Despite the unimaginable reality of it, people may ultimately experience organ failure as a result of negligence by a...Read More - Errors and Inadequate Care at New Jersey Stroke Centers
Feb 5, 2021
Lawyers for those Harmed by NJ Stroke Center Failures Stroke ranks as the fifth most fatal condition in the United States, behind heart disease, cancer, accidents, and chronic respiratory illnesses, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Surviving a stroke, however, may result in long-term or permanent neurological damage. As the population ages, the healthcare costs associated with stroke steadily increase each year. As such, medical associations and state legislatures are constantly exploring...Read More - Fronzuto Law Group Settles Case for $3,000,000.00: The Latest!
Jan 7, 2021
Fronzuto Law Group recently obtained a $3 million settlement on behalf of the estate of a man who suffered untimely death due to critical delays in his treatment for stroke. In this case, the man required emergent assessment and medical intervention when he had collapsed in his family’s home. He was experiencing several symptoms indicating a possible stroke, including slurred speech and weakness on the left side of his body, which compelled his wife to...Read More - Fall Injury Prevention in Hospital Settings
Feb 7, 2020
New Jersey Attorneys for Clients Injured from Falls in Hospitals Falls in the hospital are undoubtedly problematic, causing significant injuries like head trauma and fractures in one-third of patients. In fact, studies suggest that falls occur on between 3 and 5 of every 1,000 days in hospital settings. In addition, estimated fall rates from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality suggest that the number of hospitalized patients who fall each year may reach 1...Read More - Understanding Surgical Site Infections in New Jersey
May 3, 2019
NJ Surgical Site Infection Attorneys Among the many complications that may be caused by medical malpractice in New Jersey, surgical site infection is a dangerous problem. As a person planning to undergo surgery or a patient who has recently undergone a surgical procedure, there are some critical things about surgical site infection and other postoperative complications that you should know. Here, we define and examine the issue of surgical site infection to provide a better...Read More - Antibiotic Resistant Bacteria Spreading in U.S. Hospitals, Says CDC
Jan 11, 2019
Although hard to believe, you can enter a hospital in need of treatment for one condition and end up dealing with a serious infection. In certain cases, these infections cannot be effectively treated with today’s antibiotics. An infection is always a problem, but when the only treatment available cannot eradicate it, the situation can quickly become life-threatening. Antibiotic-resistant bacteria has earned its place among the most severe health threats facing the American public today. As...Read More - New Jersey Senate Discusses Infection Control after Viral Outbreak in Wanaque Pediatric Center
Jan 11, 2019
Members of the New Jersey Senate Health Committee recently called a hearing to discuss the infection outbreak in a Wanaque, New Jersey medical facility that resulted in the deaths of 11 children and 35 serious infections in other pediatric patients. The Senate investigation into this tragedy stemmed from a deadly virus that rapidly spread through the Wanaque Center for Nursing and Rehabilitation, a Passaic County pediatric facility, beginning in late September of this year. The virus...Read More