{"id":1056,"date":"2023-06-28T15:12:18","date_gmt":"2023-06-28T19:12:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/millerandzois.lawblogger.net\/medical-malpractice\/anesthesia-overdose-malpractice\/"},"modified":"2023-09-05T12:40:08","modified_gmt":"2023-09-05T16:40:08","slug":"anesthesia-overdose-malpractice","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.millerandzois.com\/medical-malpractice\/maryland-surgery-lawsuit-lawyer\/anesthesia-malpractice-lawyer\/anesthesia-overdose-malpractice\/","title":{"rendered":"Anesthesia Overdose Medical Malpractice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright lazyload\" src=\"\/jshared\/img\/icons\/spinner.svg\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.millerandzois.com\/medical-malpractice\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/anesthesia.jpg\" alt=\"anesthesia overdose malpractice\"\/><\/p>\n<p>As you might expect the biggest problem with anesthesia is giving too much medication causes an overdose that can lead to brain injury or death. You can&#8217;t help but wonder: how can this happen?<\/p>\n<p>Here are some common anesthesia overdose medical malpractice scenarios in Maryland:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>An overdose of anesthesia is given while switching from one potent inhalation agent to another during the maintenance phase of the anesthesia.<\/li>\n<li>The vaporizer delivering the anesthesia is out of calibration and delivered more anesthetic agent. There is no doubt that the anesthesiologist needs to step up and make sure the device is giving what it should.<\/li>\n<li>Not accounting for the size of the plaintiff. Often children cannot handle the size dose of the agent that a grown adult could. The problem here is giving too much medication. It is often compounded by not seeing the signs of trouble when too much anesthesia has been administered.<\/li>\n<li>Giving two or more anesthesia agents that, taken alone, would not cause harm but together put the patient at grave risk<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Failure to Monitor to See the Overdose<\/h4>\n<p>There are many overdose type claims that never rise to the surface because the mistake gets caught long before it becomes a life threatening event. In fact, looking at the National Practitioner Data Bank, which collects malpractice outcomes under federal law, the leading cause of malpractice payments were improver monitoring claims. (Incidentally, this data underscores how serious these claims are. The most common anesthesiologist malpractice payment involved death, quadriplegia, and brain injury that requires lifelong care. Only <a href=\"http:\/\/journals.lww.com\/surveyanesthesiology\/Citation\/2007\/08000\/The_National_Practitioner_Data_Bank_and_Anesthesia.49.aspx\">9.4%<\/a> of the payments were for injuries that resolved. We can assume that many of these are &#8220;anesthesia awareness&#8221; cases where the patient can feel the pain but can&#8217;t cry out because of the medication.<\/p>\n<div class=\"read_more_link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.millerandzois.com\/medical-malpractice\/maryland-surgery-lawsuit-lawyer\/anesthesia-malpractice-lawyer\/anesthesia-overdose-malpractice\/\"  title=\"Continue Reading Anesthesia Overdose Medical Malpractice\" class=\"more-link\">Continue Reading \u203a<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As you might expect the biggest problem with anesthesia is giving too much medication causes an overdose that can lead to brain injury or death. You can&#8217;t help but wonder: how can this happen? Here are some common anesthesia overdose medical malpractice scenarios in Maryland: An overdose of anesthesia is given while switching from one [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":1053,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1056","page","type-page","status-publish"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v25.7.1 (Yoast SEO v27.4) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Anesthesia Overdose Medical Malpractice | Baltimore, Maryland Medical Malpractice Attorney<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Free Consultation (800) 553-8082 Miller &amp; Zois helps injured victims and their families in personal injury, medical malpractice and wrongful death cases. Baltimore, Maryland Medical Malpractice Lawyers. 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