Updates and Insights

Nov 6, 2020

Endometriosis Injuries Caused by Medical Negligence If you have endometriosis, you may have difficulty becoming pregnant. In fact, this is how some women ultimately discover that they have the condition. Approximately 3% to 10% of women in their childbearing years are afflicted with this disorder, which occurs when the uterine wall lining grows outside of the womb, causing pain and cramping in the lower abdominals, particularly when menstruating or during intercourse. The pain may be...

Blood Transfusion Errors and Injuries

Oct 23, 2020

New Jersey Blood Transfusion Malpractice Lawyers In the United States every year, approximately 5 million people undergo blood transfusions, the majority of which are associated with surgery, disease, or accidents. While some transfusions save lives in an emergency, others may be scheduled with surgery or disease treatment. If a patient can plan for surgery, they want to choose the safest blood, specifically their own. However, that takes preparation and a scheduled operation or treatment. If...

Hysterectomy Errors and Malpractice

Oct 9, 2020

New Jersey Hysterectomy Negligence Attorneys Nearly 600,000 women per year undergo hysterectomies, making it the second most common surgery for women after cesarean births. While the finality of this procedure and its serious implication of no longer being able to bear children are weighty, many doctors offer this solution to end painful and excessive menstrual bleeding, as well as to treat or avoid cancer. The decision to undergo a hysterectomy is even heavier for women...

Suing when Medication Mistakes Happen in NJ

Oct 2, 2020

One of the more common mistakes in the medical field is medication error. Primarily, physicians, nurses, nurse practitioners, physician’s assistants, and pharmacists, are among the network of healthcare professionals who prescribe, dispense, and administer medications to patients. With the importance of appropriate prescriptions for the treatment and management of illness and disease, mistakes can be costly. If anyone in the medicine chain gets it wrong, the patient can be injured, perhaps permanently. Understandably, healthcare facilities...

Understanding Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) in the Malpractice Context

Sep 18, 2020

In late January of 2020, the World Health Organization declared the Covid-19 pandemic a worldwide public health emergency. In the U.S., public health emergencies have existed before, the H1N1 virus in 2009, for example. For public health emergencies like Covid-19 and H1N1 before it, healthcare workers and first responders are under extreme pressure to save lives quickly on a massive scale. When that happens, the medical priorities shift to doing what is expediently necessary—even deciding...

Acute Myocardial Infarction (AMI) and Pregnancy

Sep 4, 2020

Pregnancy is an extraordinary life event, filled with both anxiety and awe, as most pregnant women expect their bodies to do what some believe it has been naturally designed to do: give birth to a healthy child after about nine months. But every woman comes into pregnancy with a unique set of physiological, psychological, and emotional constitutions. What no one anticipates is that pregnancy and delivery will prove fatal for mother or baby. Sadly, pregnancy-related...

Maternal Complications in New Jersey Hospitals

Aug 22, 2020

NJ Maternal Complications Lawyers Representing Mothers and Families While many expectant mothers enter the hospital for the birth of a child, leaving soon after without issue and bringing healthy babies home, others are not so lucky. In fact, maternal complications threaten to leave women permanently marred by the birthing experience, physically and emotionally. Some enter the hospital only to find themselves admitted for days or even weeks thereafter, as their ailing or injured bodies attempt...

Lawsuit for Medical Malpractice with Stress Cardiomyopathy in NJ

Aug 15, 2020

New Jersey Broken Heart Syndrome Malpractice Lawyers A different kind of broken heart, stress cardiomyopathy, also known as Takotsubo cardiomyopathy, is a heart condition caused by extreme lifestyle stress, whether physical or emotional, that suddenly weakens the heart muscle. Highly impactful emotional life events bringing grief, shock, rage, or surprise, or physical stresses, whether in the form of seizures, asthma attacks, or stroke, can cause this potentially life-threatening syndrome. An excess of adrenaline, among other...

New Report on Pregnancy-Related Deaths Finds Many are Preventable

Aug 1, 2020

The Center for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) latest report on pregnancy-related deaths concludes that 2 out of every 3 of maternal deaths during or within one year of pregnancy are preventable. For the purposes of the report, pregnancy-related refers to deaths occurring prenatally, during delivery, and postnatally up to one year. The possible causes of pregnancy-related deaths include those linked to pregnancy, as opposed to external causes of death unrelated to pregnancy. To clarify,...

Jul 18, 2020

Although many have heard mention of hernias, not many people know much about them. Since these conditions often persist without symptoms for months or even years, individuals frequently do not even realize that they have one. A hernia is an opening in tissue or muscle that allows organs to bulge through, often when intestines break through the abdominal wall. In fact, hernias most frequently occur in the stomach region between the hips and chest, but...