Patients suffer injury as a result of anaesthetic mistakes and errors, including equipment errors, drug dosage errors, human errors or medical staff not following established protocol.
Some examples of negligence by an anaesthesiologist include:
- Administering the wrong type of dose of anesthesia
- Administering anesthesia too late
- Failing to put a patient under anesthesia
- Failing to properly manage the administration of medications and fluids
- Intubation mistakes and errors
- Patient Monitoring errors
- Contaminated anaesthesia drugs or anaesthetic delivery equipment
