Your child went through what was supposed to be a routine medical procedure. You trusted the medical professionals and carefully followed all their home care instructions. A few weeks after the procedure, you noticed that your child wasn’t recovering the way you expected. They were still suffering from pain and other symptoms and didn’t seem…
In 2018, a 58-year-old nurse at DePaul Hospital in Norfolk, Virginia, went to the doctor for unusual abdominal pain. She underwent a colon resection surgery, which seemed to be successful, but subsequent blood tests revealed a severe infection. The medical team delayed administering the appropriate antibiotics, and after multiple surgeries, the nurse succumbed to sepsis…
When a serious medical situation arises, patients sometimes need to undergo ventilation procedures to survive or recover. Patients who require this type of breathing aid usually undergo a procedure known as intubation. During intubation, a medical professional will insert a tube into the patient’s airway and then connect it to a ventilator. The process of…
Understanding litigation time limits is not as simple as it may sound. If you have a potential Virginia medical malpractice claim, one essential aspect of the law of which you need to be aware is the state’s statute of limitations, which acts like an expiration date by governing the amount of time you have to…
In Virginia, the standard of care in a medical malpractice lawsuit is the minimum level that a health care provider, whether it’s a nurse, a hospital, a doctor, or a surgeon, has to meet. Most of the time, it requires another expert to come in and explain to the judge or jury what that standard…