Gastric Bypass surgery Claims

      Gastric bypass surgery has become commonplace in 2011. Surgeons in the United States performed over 220,000 gastric bypass operations in 2010. On balance, this is probably a good thing because in some cases, gastric bypass surgery is the best solution for patients with hard to control obesity. At least some studies have shown that gastric bypass surgery provides generally good outcomes in bringing about weight loss and eliminating type 2 diabetes. There is also no question the technology to perform gastric bypass surgery is helping to eliminate risk and decrease recovery times from the procedure.

Still, a lot of patients are still dying from gastric bypass surgery - 2 percent – according to the AMA Journal. Complications range from infection, gallbladder injury and disease, blindness, blood clots, hernia, ulcers, peritonitis, and bowel obstruction.

Gastric Bypass and Malpractice

Without a doubt, there are risks with any surgery and gastric bypass is major surgery. Accordingly, there are many serious injuries and even deaths as a result of gastric bypass surgery that do not involve medical malpractice. Most doctors are performing these procedures well and without complications. But these operations cost in excess of $25,000, which lures in surgeons who should not be performing these operations. So you have a small number of unqualified surgeons committing malpractice on a lot of patients. Sometimes, the medical malpractice is not during the surgery itself but the failure to manage known complications. For example, failure to diagnose and treat post-surgical leaks.

Getting a Lawyer for Your Gastric Bypass Surgery Case

Our malpractice lawyers handle gastric bypass surgery cases involving death or serious injury.   If you or a loved one sustained a serious injury as a result of an error or mistake during gastric bypass surgery and you have reason to suspect malpractice, call our medical malpractice lawyers at 800-553-8082 or get a free online consultation.