Around 91 percent of anesthesiologists over the age of 70 years admitted to being one of many parties named in a lawsuit, according to the Medscape Malpractice Report 2015: Why Anesthesiologists Get Sued.
Here are seven common reasons cited for lawsuits involving anesthesiologists:
• Failure to save a life
• Neurologic injury
• Overdose
• Dental injury
• Surgical injury
• In-hospital infections
• Airway mishaps