Healthcare Professionals' Negligence

Medical malpractice occurs when a doctor or other healthcare professional negligently provides or fails to provide medical treatment. Doctors, nurses, pharmacists, surgeons, obstetricians, and hospitals all must adhere to an established standard of care. When they deviate from this standard, and injure you, they have committed medical malpractice.

Contact attorney Robert Louis Armstrong for a free initial consultation, if medical malpractice caused a serious injury or death to you or a family member. Our firm, located in Wilmington, North Carolina, represents primarily birth and neurosurgical injury and death cases. We are happy to sit down and discuss other cases involving a surgical error, medication error, or a failure to diagnose.

Medical Malpractice and Birth Injury

The unfortunate fact is that doctors can prevent most birth injuries by carefully following a strict standard of care. Obstetrician malpractice can have devastating affects to both baby and the mother. A birth injury can cause a lifetime of pain and suffering for your child. Here are some examples of avoidable birth injuries:

• Erb’s Palsy: This is when a doctor injures the nerves in infant's shoulder during birth as a result of shoulder dystocia, resulting in loss of motor skills and even paralysis.
• Cerebral Palsy: When a doctor fails monitor an infant, or fails to perform an emergency C-section, a baby may suffer this form of brain damage.
• Brain Damage: This injury can occur from lack of oxygen to the brain.

Neurosurgical and Brain Injury Malpractice

Brain injuries can result from many different forms of medical malpractice. These injuries usually occur because of a lack of oxygen to the brain. Common causes of brain injuries include a failure to treat brain swelling, brain herniation, intracranial pressure, brain hemorrhage, and lack of oxygen in the brain. Other types of medical malpractice claims include:

• Surgical errors
• Anesthesia errors
• Failure to diagnose blood clots
• Improper stroke assessments

If you were victim of medical malpractice, contact lawyer Robert Louis Armstrong for a free initial consultation. Our firm represents people in lawsuits throughout North Carolina, including people in Pender county and Columbus County.