Medical Malpractice Blog

After being piloted at eight hospitals throughout the country, The American College of Surgeons has finalized plans for the Geriatric Surgery Verification Program. The program (GSV) will go into effect in October 2019, at participating hospitals... Read More

The Eisen Law Firm Co., L.P.A. is pleased to announce that Managing Partner Brian Eisen has been invited to serve on the advisory board of Hospital Watchdog, a group of hospital safety advocates who are dedicated to improving care and saving patients’ lives. This invitation reflects Mr. Eisen’s commitment to helping protect patients’ rights and holding negligent healthcare facilities and professionals accountable... Read More

When patients need an outpatient surgical procedure, many are choosing to go to surgery centers instead of hospitals. Ambulatory surgery centers (ASCs) are also known as same-day surgery centers, surgicenters, or outpatient surgery centers... Read More

When you go into surgery, you should understand the risks of the particular procedure, including not only the complications that commonly arise, but also complications that are uncommon, if those complications may be serious. .. Read More

Such a simple idea – a surgery checklist – has proven to save lives. The Surgical Safety Checklist, a 19-item tool created by the World Health Organization (WHO), identifies what should happen before anesthesia, before an incision is made in the skin, and before a patient leaves the operating room... Read More

Imagine that a deadly microorganism has made its way to a hospital. This microorganism is resistant to most antibiotics and puts hospitals at risk of an outbreak and patients at risk of infection. Should the patients in this hospital be privy to this information? Read More

At The Eisen Law Firm, we have read many appellate court opinions relating to medical negligence over the years that seem to have come out the “wrong” way. Some seem to have gotten the facts wrong. Some seem to have gotten the law wrong... Read More

Picture the following scenario: you’ve had stomach pain for months and all remedies have failed. Finally, your physician orders an MRI to review detailed images of your organs in order to diagnose what ails you. You get the scan, and then you wait. And then you wait some more... Read More

You go the Emergency Department complaining of the worst headache you have ever experienced. The physician asks only a few questions, performs a cursory exam, and prescribes an injection of Dilaudid (opiate medication) 2 mg IV (intravenous). You are “observed” in the emergency room for 45 minutes. At the time of discharge, you are too “out of it” to sign your discharge papers, and a friend is called to give you a ride home. Your wife finds you the next morning unresponsive... Read More

Imagine going to the hospital for surgery to remove a diseased organ, only to wake up with the wrong organ missing! That’s precisely what happened to Dena Knapp in October of 2016. She went in to have her adrenal gland removed, but the surgeon removed her kidney instead... Read More

Blood pressure is related to many significant health conditions. For that reason, the American College of Cardiologists (“ACC”) and the American Heart Association (“AHA”) are constantly collecting (and sharing) data on blood pressure and adverse health events. The idea is to further our understanding of the relationship between blood pressure and health, so that better recommendations can be made. Recently, the ACC and AHA jointly published their first new set of comprehensive guidelines since 2003... Read More

The Eisen Law Firm announced the launch of a new website solely dedicated to birth injury law. The new website allows clients to quickly obtain information about birth injury claims and the birth injury claims process in the state of Ohio. The new website is www.birthinjuryohio.com. The Eisen Law Firm focuses exclusively on medical malpractice cases, including birth injury and negligence cases.... Read More

In the United States, between 600 and 1600 newborns are dropped in hospitals every year. The AHRQ (Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality) defines a newborn drop as “a fall in which a baby being held or carried by a health care professional, parent, family member, or visitor falls or slips from that person’s hands, arms, laps, etc.... Read More

Attorney Todd E. Gurney of The Eisen Law Firm is the recipient of the first Robert Sill Leadership Award given by the Ohio Region of ORT America in recognition of his outstanding efforts on behalf of the ORT Jurisprudence Awards... Read More

Defining Communication Errors Understanding communication errors is a pretty straight forward endeavor. Errors or lapses in communication between medical staff can cause mix-ups in treatment, miscalculations when trying to determine how best to help a patient, or the loss of critical patient information. These medical errors can range in seriousness, and in many cases can lead to ... Read More