Cauda equina syndrome causes compression of the spinal nerves. It's a neurological emergency that must be identified and fast tracked to the operating room. “The failure to timely diagnose and treat acute cauda equina syndrome will likely be a battle of the experts in the courthouse. What is important is identification of every failure [...]
Some hospitals aren't prepared for timely transfers to a Comprehensive Stroke Center with physician skill & equipment to provide the necessary standard of care. In 2018 hospitals across the country prepared for the updated Acute Ischemic Stroke Guideline which represented a paradigm shift as thrombectomy was recommended along with thrombolysis for large vessel occlusions [...]
During the peak of the outbreak in Manhattan, Dr. Weinberger reported, “We’re doing twice as many interventions for large vessel thromboses than usual...” Dr. Jesse Weinberger, a stroke neurologist and member of a vascular interventional group that serves multiple hospitals in Manhattan, New York, and is director of the neurovascular laboratory at Mount Sinai [...]
Basilar artery occlusion (BAO) leads to a catastrophic stroke syndrome that...carries a risk between 40-80 percent death and severe disability. Basilar artery occlusion (BAO) leads to a catastrophic stroke syndrome that despite advances in acute stroke management that includes timely thrombolysis with tPA, a potent clot breaker, and interventional procedures including mechanical thrombectomy carries [...]
The Journal of the American Medical Association proved that faster time to treatment has been showed to have better long-term outcomes. The Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) a study proved the obvious that faster time to treatment in the setting of acute stroke with intravenous thrombolytic therapy has been showed to have [...]
VLG: A national neurological injury and malpractice injury law firm, is investigating case of septic emboli strokes and heart valve damage. Greg Vigna, MD, JD, a physician Board Certified in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, practicing physician, and national medical malpractice and pharmaceutical injury attorney comments: “Clearly the medical literature requires every patient with Enterococcus [...]
Dr. Greg Vigna comments on hospitals' failure to meet stroke care management standards, resulting in untimely diagnoses of catastrophic strokes. “There is nothing transient about a transient ischemic attack when symptoms are consistent with large cerebral vessel occlusive disease and the failure to diagnose leads to life-time disability"... Dr. Greg Vigna-stroke physician/attorney Transient ischemic attacks [...]
Dr. Greg Vigna comments on the vaginal mesh litigation and medical malpractice cases retained by his law. “Medical malpractice cases and pharmaceutical injury cases are about the costs of future care. Without significant money damages staring them in the face, mesh manufacturers think they are invulnerable. With harm comes fear.” Greg Vigna, MD, JD, [...]
Dr. Greg Vigna comments on the selection of Mr. Becerra, a women’s advocate against vaginal mesh products, as the Secretary of Health and Human Services. “A very good day indeed as Biden picks Xavier Becerra, Esq. to be Secretary of Health and Human Services. Mr. Becerra is a leading women’s advocate and the California [...]
Greg Vigna, MD, JD, national pharmaceutical injury attorney, practicing physician, discusses the next phase of the transvaginal litigation. “My firm represents women with neuropathic pain caused by retropubic slings. Neuropathic pain is pain that affects the nerves. Neuropathic pain can be brutal. It can be caused by polypropylene (a type of plastic) devices that [...]