Injuries That Often Need Surgery

The medical treatment plan for injuries will depend on the type and severity of your injury. When an injury requires surgery, it can increase your costs and recovery time. Learn about your rights to possible compensation from San Francisco personal injury lawyers today. 

You shouldn’t be forced to cover medical expenses alone if your injuries resulted from someone else’s negligence. If you suffered an accident that demands surgical treatment, you might be entitled to receive compensation and recoup your losses in a personal injury case. Learn more about the common accident injuries that demand surgical treatment, and learn more about how our San Francisco personal injury lawyers could help you cover those surgical bills.

Soft Tissue/Organ Injuries

Many accidents can result in the tearing of muscle tissue, ligaments, or, at worst, organ damage. The first two will painfully limit mobility. While they won’t open the skin or externally bleed, such soft tissue injuries can still inflict excruciating agony, permanent muscle damage, internal bleeding, and rare cases, death.

Soft tissue injuries can inflict long-term suffering and demand a more extended treatment regimen. Vital organ ruptures or punctures, on the other hand, will inflict more immediate damage and require immediate medical treatment, including surgical repair. 

Compound Fracture Injuries

A compound fracture refers to a particularly nasty bone break where the bone protrudes through the skin. This leads to excruciating pain, muscle damage, bleeding, and infection if not attended to right away. This demands immediate surgery to properly clean and close the wound, put the bone back into place, and potentially insert metal implants to hold the bone in place until the injury mends. Because of the need for emergency surgery, this can be a costly injury to treat.

Catastrophic Injuries

Aptly named, the medical definition of a catastrophic injury refers to severe damage to the skull, brain, or spinal cord, or an injury that causes the loss of use of a body part. Though not always fatal, such injuries are bound to drastically, devastatingly change a person’s life. Among other things besides death, such injuries can lead to:

• Permanent paralysis, disability, or loss of function
• Chronic back pain
• The need for lifetime care
• The need for assisted mobility devices
• Traumatic brain injuries (TBIs) and CTE
• Lost wages (if the disability impedes your work)
• Severe scarring, disfigurement, or amputation
• Brain damage or neurodegenerative conditions like dementia

Between the surgeries and ongoing lifelong treatment costs these injuries demand, the final hospital bill will easily incur six figures at best and seven figures at worst. We hope you never have to suffer any injuries this severe, but fortunately, the party that caused your injuries can be liable for a lifetime’s worth of losses.

Let Our San Francisco Personal Injury Lawyers Help

For over six decades, The Cartwright Law Firm has fought for compensation for clients across the Bay Area. If you or a loved one in the area suffered an accidental injury that demands costly surgical treatment, our team of San Francisco personal injury lawyers could help you cover those expenses and hold the negligent parties accountable. Contact us today to learn more and arrange a free case review.