As a gentamicin hearing loss lawyer, the Thomas Creech Law Offices represents patients and their families, including newborn infants, that have suffered deafness as a result of the over-administration of gentamicin.
What is Gentamicin?
Gentamicin is a powerful, useful antibiotic that can cause hearing loss in newborn babies and even in adults.
Gentamicin is very effective in fighting off certain infections, like sepsis, in newborn infants. It is widely used in ICU facilities across the country, in the United States and worldwide. Because of its potential to cause hearing loss and permanent deafness, gentamicin must be monitored by health care providers in the hospital.
Monitoring of gentamicin by providers can prevent the over-administration of gentamicin to the newborn.
Gentamicin and Deafness
As beneficial as gentamicin can be for babies fighting infection, it also has detrimental side effects. Gentamicin can cause permanent deafness in newborns.
Gentamicin hearing loss lawyer
The Thomas Creech Law Offices has experience in gentamicin hearing loss deafness cases.
Attorney Thomas Creech has become knowledgeable on issues concerning gentamicin including how it causes deafness in newborns. He’s also learned about appropriate peak and trough levels of gentamicin in a newborn, the appropriate dosing schedules and amounts, the monitoring requirements, the appropriate standard-of-care levels of gentamicin in a newborn, and the damages that can result from permanent hearing loss and deafness caused by gentamicin.
Do I have a case?
Gentamicin can cause ototoxic affects and damage the inner ear hair cells leading to deafness. Cases usually involve a medical provider making an improper order resulting in the over-administration of gentamicin.
Another common cause of gentamicin hearing loss injuries involves medical providers not following orders and administering too much gentamicin to the newborn. A lack of monitoring, or careless monitoring, can cause the over-administration of gentamicin by health care providers. So common factors that need to be investigated in a gentamicin hearing loss case include:
- How much gentamicin was given to the infant newborn or patient?
- What were the levels of gentamicin in the newborn?
- Who ordered the gentamicin to be administered to the newborn?
- What was the dosing administration of the gentamicin?
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