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Surgical Mistake Attorneys in Baltimore, Maryland
Surgical Mistake Attorneys in Baltimore
Holding surgeons and hospitals accountable when preventable surgical errors cause serious patient harm.
Surgery carries inherent risk, but when a preventable error occurs in the operating room, the consequences can be life-altering. Surgical mistakes include operating on the wrong body part, leaving instruments inside a patient, damaging nerves or organs during a procedure, or making critical errors in anesthesia administration. These are not acceptable risks — they are failures in the standard of care.
At Killian Law Group, our surgical malpractice attorneys have the medical knowledge and litigation experience to investigate what went wrong, establish how the error was preventable, and fight for the compensation our clients need to recover.
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Frequently Asked Surgical Mistake Questions:
We obtain and analyze the complete surgical records including operative reports, anesthesia logs, nursing notes, and imaging studies. Our attorneys work with independent surgical experts who review these records and testify as to how the procedure deviated from the standard of care and how the injury could have been avoided with proper technique.
Compensation may include medical expenses for corrective procedures and ongoing treatment, lost wages during recovery, pain and suffering, permanent disability or disfigurement, loss of quality of life, and future medical care costs. The value of your case depends on the severity of the injury and the extent of the surgeon’s negligence.
Maryland’s statute of limitations for surgical malpractice is generally five years from the date the error occurred or three years from the date the injury was discovered, whichever comes first. Because some surgical injuries are not immediately apparent, it is important to consult an attorney as soon as you suspect something went wrong.
A surgical mistake qualifies as malpractice when a surgeon or surgical team deviates from the accepted standard of care and that deviation directly causes injury to the patient. Examples include wrong-site surgery, retained surgical instruments, anesthesia errors, nerve or organ damage caused by negligence, and performing procedures without proper informed consent.
