Complications From Abdominal Surgery Negligence

When you have abdominal surgery, you expect everything to go right and to walk out of that surgery with your condition improved, or at least not made worse. Sometimes, however, something can go wrong and this doesn't occur. If something goes wrong during abdominal surgery- from an infection due to an unsterile operating room to a botched surgery that nicked an artery or punctured your stomach- the consequences of something going wrong can be severe. If you are suffering from complications as a result of surgery negligence during your abdominal surgery, it is imperative that you get a lawyer and that you understand medical malpractice law as it relates to surgery negligence.

Surgery Negligence and Medical Malpractice

Like all doctors, surgeons can be held liable if they make a careless mistake. To determine if your doctor can be held liable for the medical malpractice resulting from the surgery negligence, you need to look at whether you can prove two things:

• You need to prove your surgeon was negligent. A reasonable surgeon standard is used in order to make a determination on negligence. Can your doctor's care and actions during the surgery be considered reasonable, based on what a normal surgeon would do? If not- if his care was poor enough that no reasonably competent surgeon would have performed in such a manner- then your doctor may be considered negligent under the law
• You need to prove the negligence led to the complications. If your doctor made a mistake, you also have to show the causal connection between that mistake and the complications you are facing. For example, if you got an infection, the doctor can try to argue that you would have gotten that infection anyway no matter what he did. Unless you can prove otherwise and show that he actually caused the problem, you can't recover

(See Also Misdiagnosis of Upper Abdominal Pain Leading to Medical Malpractice).

Getting Help

An experienced lawyer can help you to gather the evidence you need to prove a case for surgery negligence. You should strongly consider contacting a lawyer as soon as surgical complications arise so your lawyer can help you to begin gathering the evidence you need to build a case against your physician.