Intubation Medical Malpractice Attorney

Intubation Error/Mistake – Faulty Insertion – Lawsuit – Attorney

Tracheal intubation is a procedure that is used to help a person who is unable to breathe after a crisis or accident. If a doctor or healthcare provider fails in correctly intubating a person, it can lead to death for this individual, who will then have no open airway available to sustain life and breathe.

Adverse Outcomes from Intubation Medical Malpractice

If a doctor wrongfully intubates a person who is a patient, death can result from this mistake. Finding the safest and most appropriate airway for the person to be able to breathe is part of the general training of all doctors tasked with maintaining airways in emergency environments.

“Difficult” Intubations May Occur from Human Error

If a person is not intubated correctly, there may be a case of medical malpractice. A difficult tracheal intubation will be dangerous for the person receiving the intubation. Permanent brain damage can result from a lack of air going to the brain, and may be the result of a failed intubation attempt by a healthcare professional.

Tracheal intubation needs to be successfully achieved in every situation where it is needed to sustain a person’s life. If the healthcare professionals are not trained on how to properly insert a tracheal intubation tube, then this may constitute medical malpractice.
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Possible Precautions Need to Be Observed with Difficult Intubations

If a person needs to be intubated, but has a predicting factor that may make the intubation difficult, that is for the healthcare provider to manage at the outset of the case for the individual. For example, if a person has an ancillary medical condition, it may interfere with the proper and safe insertion of the intubation tube.

Conditions that can make it difficult to insert an intubation tube may include:

• Past history of difficulty using a tracheal intubation tube
• Limited size of mouth opening
• Blood in the airway
• Short thick neck of person
• Person has a swollen tongue
• Mother has preeclampsia
• Person has prominent teeth
• Limitation of the person’s cervical spinal extension

It is the responsibility of the healthcare provider to seek help when it is found to be difficult to intubate a person in an emergency situation in a hospital setting, such as after an accident. The healthcare provider needs to follow all stated guidelines and protocols if an intubation tube “won’t go in” properly. This may include calling out for help when the healthcare provider is unable to successfully intubate or oxygenate the person in crisis, when the individual is still unable to breathe. Other issues related to medical malpractice would be if the healthcare provider did not secure a proper airway for the patient, and also:

• Delayed calling out for a surgical airway to be initiated instead
• Failed to use a supraglottic airway as a bridge
• Did not properly manage a preoperative airway for the individual in crisis
• Made many judgement failures on the case
• Did not properly determine a backup plan for securing a new airway for the person in crisis
• Did not preserve a viable airway for the individual in crisis

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Typical Injuries as the Result of Failed Intubations

Some of the typical injuries that can result from a failed intubation can be serious. These injuries include:

• Laryngeal injuries
• Pharyngeal injuries
• Esophageal injuries
• Difficult airways and respiratory claims in the future
• Death
• Brain dead injury
• Hypoxia
• Major airway trauma
• Temporomandibular joint injury
• Esophageal perforation

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Making Proper Decisions for Intubation for Healthcare Providers

The healthcare providers need to make the right decisions for a person who needs an intubation to be able to breathe properly. The healthcare providers, doctors and surgeons need to make the right decisions to prevent breathing failure and support life for the person in crisis from a collapsed or blocked airway.

Doctors need to work together to communicate strategies and techniques, that will help the person receiving the intubation to get that procedure safely. The doctors are responsible to review elective airway strategies, to help a person to live and breathe safely. All doctors need to assess the patient for a risk of a failed airway, and the possibility of an aspiration.

For example, intubation is not the only way to get an airway ready for a patient, other means can be used when necessary. When an airway strategy fails, a healthcare provider needs to know what to try next for success to help a person in crisis to breathe again.

Common Intubation Complications

There are many common intubation complications, when the intubation tube is not placed properly. These complications include:
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• Obstruction of the tracheal tube<
• Tracheal tube misplacement
• Airway trauma
• Delayed intubation
• Extubating issues
• Aspiration of gastric fluids
• Failure to use awake fiberoptic intubation if necessary

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Can I Sue for the Injuries from an Intubation That Results in Medical Malpractice?

Yes, we can sue for personal injuries from an intubation that resulted in medical malpractice. You are able to discuss your case with us today. All that you need to do is to call our Los Angeles case lawyers to file a lawsuit. It is easy to talk to our case attorneys in Los Angeles, whereby you can sue for personal injuries based on a medical malpractice claim regarding an improper intubation.

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