Personal Injury

Lieff Cabraser is investigating multiple reports of drug administration errors in August of 2026 at Ascension Saint Thomas Hospital in Nashville, Tennessee, including one patient who went in for “routine” knee surgery and was left partially paralyzed. The now-paralyzed patient was supposed to receive anesthetic prior to surgery, and instead was given the potassium that led to her T6 paralysis. (Potassium chloride can be extremely dangerous when administered incorrectly, and was in fact used as a part of Tennessee’s lethal injection protocol in the past.)

News coverage indicates the hospital had reported the incidents to state regulators, but has not publicly reported the cause or any changes made in the wake of the mistakes. The fact that multiple patients were affected here suggests a system-wide breakdown.

Lieff Cabraser served in a leadership role in successful litigation on behalf of injured patients in the national medical catatstrophe that arose from contaminated epidural steroid injections, including the representation of Tennessee patients of the Saint Thomas Outpatient Neurosurgical Center at the Saint Thomas West Hospital facility. (The 2012 meningitis contamination tragedy led to fifteen deaths in in Tennessee and 64 deaths nationwide). The National Law Journal has repeatedly selected Lieff Cabraser as one of the top plaintiffs’ law firms in the nation. U.S. News and Best Lawyers has recognized our personal injury lawyers and firm as the nation’s Law Firm of the Year in the category of Mass Torts and Plaintiffs’ Class Action for four separate years.

If you or a family member were injured as a result of drug errors at Ascension Saint Thomas Hospital in Nashville, we urge you to use the form below to start a conversation with a proven injury attorney at Lieff Cabraser about your rights and potential recovery.

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