Surgical Error Illustrations

As you navigate the intricacies of a surgical error case, it’s vital that you have access to the right tools to support your legal arguments. At MediVisuals + High Impact, we provide surgical error illustrations, medical 3D models, and animated surgery videos designed to give more weight to your words and successfully drive your points home.

According to data collected in 2022, at least 4,000 surgical errors occur in the U.S. every single year – the impacts of which range from mild to catastrophic. 

During a recent study, the American College of Surgeons found that wrong-site surgeries caused the greatest harm; 30.9% of patients suffered temporary minor harm, roughly one-fourth experienced major harm, and 17.6% experienced permanent (albeit minor) harm. 

Some of the most common injuries that occur as a result of surgical errors include pain, mobility issues, worsened injuries, and the need for additional surgery. A small percentage of these cases are also related to scarring, the total loss of function in a limb, and death.

Surgical error illustrations are a form of precision medical artwork designed to supplement spoken or text-based presentations. Our medical illustrators provide medical illustrations to explain mechanisms of injury, highlight errors during surgical procedures, and break down the long-term implications of such errors.

MediVisuals + High Impact’s surgical error illustrations are used in civil legal proceedings by attorneys on both sides of the aisle. Plaintiffs’ attorneys leverage our illustrations to demonstrate deviations from the standard of care and highlight provider liability, while defense attorneys use our illustrations to illustrate the nuance of a given procedure for a particular patient to reduce or eliminate their client’s liability and preserve their professional reputation in the medical community.

MediVisuals + High Impact offers a broad range of surgical error illustrations that include the following:

• Mechanism of injury graphics
• 2D still frame imagery
• 3D motion graphics
• Recreation videos

If you need to visualize complex information to assist with recall and support your arguments, MediVisuals + High Impact can accommodate, as our team consists of experienced visual strategies, graphic designers, animators, and medical professionals.

Together, we ensure that the imagery we provide is both impactful and anatomically accurate. Moreover, our strategies will help you decide when and how to integrate our deliverables into your arguments so you can make the strongest case for your clients. 

As a full-service 3D medical animation provider, MediVisuals + High Impact is accustomed to accommodating complex requests and tight deadlines. If you have settlement negotiations or a trial approaching, we’ll ensure you have the visual assets necessary to support your arguments.

During surgical error proceedings, you have to present complex facts to individuals from a wide range of backgrounds, including legal and medical professionals. If your case goes to trial, you’ll also have to break down these complexities to a jury of laypersons, which can be exceptionally difficult.

With the help of MediVisuals + High Impact, you’ll have powerful and engaging visual aids to amplify your arguments. Our animations can be used to explain surgical procedures, mechanisms of injury, and the many variables that are at play during any surgery. 

By using our 3D medical animations, you can accomplish the following:

Improve Recall

When you present case details in a written or spoken format, your audience will only recall about 10% of the information just three days later. By simply adding imagery to the mix, recall soars to 65%. That’s where MediVisuals + High Impact’s engaging medical animations and surgical error illustrations come in. They can easily be integrated into any of your presentations, effectively improving recall among audiences like jury members.

Support Your Arguments

No matter how skilled you are as a speaker, it can be tough to explain surgical procedures and how an error during one led to an injury. With MediVisuals + High Impact, you won’t just have to tell your audience what happened — you can show them. 

We offer a variety of content, including video, 2D animations, and recreations. Use them as tools that reinforce your case and drive home important arguments. 

Keep Your Audience Engaged 

It may be tough to accept, but the unfortunate fact of the matter is that jurors will struggle to pay attention during a multi-day (or even multi-week) trial. 

Adding visuals to the mix, though, can make your presentation more memorable and engaging, leading to higher attentiveness. Our illustrations may also differentiate your presentation from that of your opponent, giving you the advantage as you strive to sway opinions and argue facts.

Legal professionals across the country have achieved exceptional results with MediVisuals + High Impact’s surgical error illustrations. Our deliverables have been used in a wide range of cases, including implant failures, wrongful death claims, and surgical error cases. 

For instance, Christopher Elliott of Bachus & Schanker, LLC partnered with MediVisuals + High Impact when litigating a defective hip implant case. Mr. Elliot’s client suffered severe heavy-metal poisoning after undergoing multiple revision surgeries to address a defective hip implant. 

Mr. Elliot’s case was incredibly complex, as it involved multiple surgical errors alongside a defective medical device; nevertheless, as part of our commitment to quality and accuracy, we stringently reviewed the details provided by Mr. Elliot. 

Our medical animators and healthcare consultants used the information to create relevant deliverables that were anatomically accurate and engaging, including an animation explaining how the hip implant could fail and graphics showing the impacts of heavy metal poisoning. 

Ultimately, Mr. Elliot used our graphics to support his arguments, resulting in a $21M verdict.

If you’d like to learn more about the use cases and benefits of our surgical error illustrations, we invite you to connect with MediVisuals + High Impact. Contact our team directly or schedule a call at a time that fits your schedule.