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Washington Appellate Court Revives Medical Malpractice Claim Against Anesthesiologist’s Employer

September 4, 2026

In November 2022, as a healthy 33-year-old, Xinnan Nancy Zhong underwent an egg-retrieval procedure to preserve her eggs until she was ready to have children. Before conducting the operation, her obstetrician directed her anesthesiologist to give her cefazolin, which is an optional prophylactic anti[...]

$15.4M Connecticut Medical Malpractice Verdict For Botched Anesthesia Leading To Death

September 9, 2024

A 57-year-old woman who went in for a routine, 15-minute endoscopy procedure ended up suffering cardiorespiratory collapse at the end of the procedure. The Connecticut medical malpractice wrongful death lawsuit alleged that the anesthesia team failed to timely recognize the emergency situation and o[...]

$1M Virginia Medical Malpractice Settlement From Anesthesiologist For Avoidable Aspiration During Surgery

August 31, 2024

A patient in Virginia who had resection surgery to treat his colorectal cancer was admitted to the hospital following his surgery, for monitoring. During the ensuing days in the hospital, the patient began suffering nausea, vomiting, abdominal pain, and abdominal distension for which a drain tube wa[...]

Louisiana Appellate Court Holds Medical Malpractice Claim Against Anesthesiologist Was Filed Too Late

November 10, 2022

Claim Against Anesthesiologist Was Filed Too Late: Louisiana Medical Malpractice Statute Of Limitations – La. R.S. 9:5628(A) provides two periods for filing a malpractice action—either one year from the date of the alleged act, omission or neglect, or one year from the date of discovery of t[...]

The Impact Of Anesthesia Medical Malpractice On Practitioners

March 13, 2012

In an article published in the March, 2012 issue of the journal Anesthesia & Analgesia, the results of a survey sent to 1,200 randomly selected members of the American Society of Anesthesiologists, of which 659 completed and returned the survey, found that 84% of the respondents had been [...]

Louisiana Medical Malpractice Claim For Sedated Patient Who Fell From Procedure Table

February 15, 2012

Certain medical procedures require the patient to receive some form of sedation (ranging from a light sedation commonly called I.V. sedation that results in the patient being relaxed and feeling sleepy and causes the patient to forget the procedure and the time immediately afterwards but enables th[...]

Anesthesia Medical Malpractice

August 10, 2011

In studies of closed claims since 1990 involving anesthesia medical malpractice, it was found that death or brain damage was involved in 31% to 32% of the claims. Death or brain damage was caused by a respiratory issue in 45% of these cases and involved inadequate ventilation in 7% of the cases, e[...]

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