Each day, thousands of people in the U.S. have heart surgery. There are many different types of heart surgery. Surgeries may be used to:
- Repair or replace the valves that control blood flow through the heart's chambers
- Bypassor widen blocked or narrowed arteries to the heart
- Repair heart aneurysms, or bulges in the aorta, which can be deadly if they burst
- Implant devices to regulate heart rhythms
- Destroy small amounts of tissue that disturb electrical flow through the heart
- Make channels in the heart muscle to allow blood from a heart chamber directly into the heart muscle
- Boost the heart's pumping power with muscles taken from the back or abdomen
- Replace the damaged heart with a heart from a donor
When malpractice occurs during heart surgery, the outcomes are always devastating. A death due to medical negligence leaves family and friends overwhelmed, confused and lost. You deserve to know if the complications that occurred during your loved one's cardiac surgery were due to the negligence of the surgeon, nurse or hospital. The only way to know for sure is to talk with attorneys who specialize in litigating medical practice cases involving heart surgery. The attorneys at Baizer, Kolar & Lewis P.C. are recognized experts the field of cardiac malpractice.
Contact Baizer Kolar & Lewis P.C. for free consultation to discuss your case.
