Living With Gentamicin PoisoningThis Website Is Dedicated To The Many Unfortunate Persons Who Suffer A Balance Or Vision Disorder After Receiving The Antibiotic Gentamicin.

Gentamicin Induced Ototoxicity
Gentamicin Poisoning

Gentamicin sulfate is a powerful antibiotic delivered intravenously to patients in hospitals, nursing homes, and home healthcare settings to combat severe infections. Gentamicin is an effective treatment, but only when properly administered and monitored by a medical professional. Extended use and high dosages can result in serious and permanent personal injury.

If you have been treated with gentamicin via intravenous injection:

  • Do you have trouble keeping your balance?
  • Is it difficult to see faces or signs while walking down the street?
  • Is it difficult or impossible to drive, especially at night?
  • Are you having trouble with concentration or memory?

If so, you may be the victim of gentamicin-induced ototoxicity, more commonly known as gentamicin poisoning.

This informational web site is brought to you by Keith S. Douglass & Associates, LLP, a Spokane, Washington, personal injury and medical malpractice law firm that has successfully handled more than 70 gentamicin poisoning cases. If you are interested in learning more about our gentamicin practice, please contact our law firm. This is an informational web site provided as a resource to people suffering from gentamicin poisoning, their families and physicians.

About Gentamicin

Gentamicin (sometimes misspelled gentamycin) is an antibiotic that first went into commercial production more than 40 years ago. At that time, it was the only antibiotic available to treat many infections. Doctors quickly discovered it could have a devastating effect of the inner ear, causing permanent balance impairment and bouncing vision (oscillopsia).

For many years, physicians had no good alternatives to gentamicin for certain types of infections and continued to use it even though the potential side effects were well known.

Over the past two decades, numerous new antibiotics have been developed that do not carry the same side effects as gentamicin. There are extremely few circumstances today, in fact, where long term gentamicin therapy is the best choice. If gentamicin is used, the dosage and treatment period should be minimal.

The Low Cost Alternative

Unfortunately, because of low cost, and inadequate knowledge of gentamicin's serious side effects by certain physicians and pharmacists, gentamicin is still prescribed with alarming frequency by doctors and other healthcare providers who don’t appreciate gentamicin's substantial risks.

The resources on this Gentamicin Information Center are designed to explain the condition of gentamicin poisoning and to illustrate how devastating gentamicin poisoning can be to all facets of a person's life.

The legal professionals of Keith S. Douglass & Associates, LLP have successfully represented more than 70 clients throughout the United States in gentamicin poisoning cases.