The most frequent types of negligence in cardiology are delayed diagnosis or misdiagnosis of heart disease, incorrect prescription of medicine and/or surgical operations. All types of cardiology negligence have their consequences, and you can get compensation for medical negligence.

Common cardiology negligence claims are:

• Hearing stories of heart attack misdiagnosis
• One of the concerns that have been highlighted is the misdiagnosis of blood pressure problems
• Pacemaker problems
• Cardiology surgery errors
• Cardiology medication errors

Ways The Problem Of Misdiagnosis of a Heart Attack Can Be Solved

Incorrect diagnosis of a heart attack can be done by your GP, the paramedic who examines you or the doctor who examines admitting you to the A&E.

Rather than giving you an understanding that you are having a heart attack, the medical professional releases you and advises that you might be having indigestion or stress. In fact, you are having a heart attack, or a heart attack is a very near occurrence for you. In essence, to fail to correctly identify the type of your heart attack compromises your health further and significantly prolongs your chances of having severe impacts on the heart muscles.

Overall the accuracy was quite low because out of 20 blood pressure labelled patients 13 were misdiagnosed either as having a blood pressure issue, not having a blood pressure issue, but having a different issue.

Lack of conclusive diagnosis regarding blood pressure may result in your failure in preventing other possible heart problems. Any previous records of hypertension in the applicant reporting or family history should be discussed with the examining doctor.

A decision of overlooking blood pressure checks or spitting a blood pressure machine makes one end up being on the wrong medication.

Chronic uncontrolled BP causes strokes, heart attacks and damage to the vessels making up the human body.

Pacemaker Problems

Some of the complications which may arise from a malfunctioning pacemaker include a bad battery, a faulty wiring system and improper settings of the device and are detected after the boom has been implanted on the patient.

A surgeon uses the pacemaker to deal with some of the heart problems and ought not to break down, therefore endangering the patient. As a matter of medical malpractice the surgeon failed to fit the pacemaker as it should be. Many times, the problems are not realised until the patient is in stress and starts experiencing a cardiac arrest.

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Cardiology Surgery Errors

Surgical mistakes occur in cardiology surgeries when they are least expected and at worst times, during critical surgeries. Some of the catastrophic complications that may occur include an injury to an artery, heart, implantation of the incorrect stent or placing it in an incorrect artery. Even today, with sophisticated technology available for surgeries, cardiology surgery is an easy task to perform with lesser chances of going wrong from the surgeon’s side, but cardiology surgery mistakes can occur and if it does, it can be very bad news for the patient.

Inside Diagnosis: Delayed Diagnosis Of A Heart Problem

This is because, when a problem of the heart is diagnosed late, there are essential remedies that can be prevented from being administered to help heal the organ further. If you are suffering from high cholesterol and hypertension and your doctor does not prescribe the right medication for the symptoms and refers for further tests then the life is in danger of a heart attack.

Don’t you see that … Any of these symptoms of a cardiology complaint should make the examining doctor take your worries seriously. They should review your family history and suggest they refer you to another specialist with further investigation of the issues.

Cardiology Medication Errors

Common mistakes that cardiologists make involve taking you off the right medication or administering the wrong quantity of medicine that may potentially harm you. The wrong cardiology medication may also not only harm you but will also leave your condition untreated from the damage caused by the initial diagnosis.

Pharmaceutical and dosage Mistakes involving cardiology medicine can happen at the pharmacy or at the Prescription level. A contraindication is a medication that presumably undermines the effects of the existing tablets; it comes with dangerous side effects that not only affect the heart but also other organs of the body.

Many conditions affecting the heart can be properly diagnosed, treated and prescribed with proper care and medication. The examining medical professional should be familiar with the basic demographic data regarding primary heart diseases, and you may have a cardiology negligence case if you are harmed due to medical malpractice.