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If This Happened to You, It Could Be Negligent Heart Catheterization

In 1 to 3 percent of heart catheterization procedures, negligence occurs at the point where the doctor accessed the femoral artery. Other arteries can be the site of negligence as well. Symptoms include major and minor bleeding, bruising, discomfort, pseudoaneurysm, numbness, embolism, and arterial-venous fistula.

In addition, negligence in heart catheterization can result in stroke, idney damage, heart attack, allergic reaction (to learn more about allergic reactions to contrast dye, read this Daytona Beach medical malpractice lawyer article, abnormal heart rate, and death.

Some complications are more unusual than others. If you've suffered either of the following complications during heart catheterization, you may have been the victim of medical malpractice: 1) bladder perforation or cut bladder; and 2) air bubbles in your blood stream that resulted in heart attack.

Heart catheterizations are risky procedures fraught with the potential for negligent injury. Doctors and surgeons should not perform this procedure unless it is clearly called for and the patient has given well-informed consent.

Examples of situations that provide clear indication that a heart catheterization is appropriate include heart attack (acute myocardial infarction) or reoccuring angina after a heart attack; clear, significant abnormal results in a stress test; angina that does not respond well to medication; congestive heart failure caused by valve defects, coronary artery disease or suspected heart problems; continuing undiagnosed chest pain; rejected heart transplant; congenital heart disease; and surviving sudden cardiac death.

While cardiac catheterizations are appropriate in many situations, sometimes a patient has a second condition that will cause a responsible doctor to rule out a heart catheter. This contraindications include: known severe allergy to dye without ability to pretreat for it; out of control bleeding problems; substantial kidney trouble (not including dialysis); and significant bodily infection.

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