You did the bypass.
The chart needs to show
you caught the leak in time.
Most bariatric suits aren't about the surgery itself. They're about what happened in the 24 hours after. Vitals q4h, tachycardia response, swallow study escalation, DVT prophylaxis. RiskShield makes sure the chart shows the response was on time. And because we're a law firm, we're building the evidence you did everything right long before anyone alleges delay.
What We Do
Tachycardia of 122 at 16 hours.
Swallow study ordered at 22 hours.
Six hours of unaddressed tachycardia is what every bariatric leak case turns on. RiskShield monitors post-op vitals against your facility's leak protocol, DVT prophylaxis administration, preop psych and nutrition evaluations, and follow-up lab cadence. The protocol exists. We make sure the chart shows it was followed.
- Post-op leak protocol adherence (vitals, tachycardia escalation)
- DVT prophylaxis administration tracking
- Preop psych evaluation and nutrition consult
- Comorbidity screening completeness
- Informed consent documentation
- Follow-up lab and weight tracking cadence
We're a law firm,
not a vendor.
Our work for you is covered by attorney-client privilege and work-product protections to the fullest extent the law allows. Your center gets its own data silo, accessed only by staff bound by that same privilege. We use it to find and fix risks that would otherwise surface years from now. Full BAA signed before any data is shared.
We work from a proprietary library of bariatric malpractice cases and defense strategies across every state, so we know what plaintiff lawyers reach for and where charts tend to break.
We intercept the ads targeting your patients.
Plaintiff firms run Facebook and Google ads targeting families of bariatric patients with complications, by surgery type, center name, and ZIP code. We catch these campaigns early and route concerned patients to your team instead of theirs.
Setup takes a week. Then it runs.
Engage us as counsel
We're a law firm. Everything that follows is privileged. This isn't a vendor agreement.
Read-only EMR access
We connect to your EMR in read-only mode. Structured data only: vitals flowsheets, medication administration, op notes, preop evaluations, post-op follow-up, lab results. Your staff doesn't have to learn anything new.
Compliance review + ad monitoring
We review documentation against bariatric-specific clinical logic: ASMBS standards, leak protocol guidelines, and DVT prophylaxis benchmarks. Separately, we watch for plaintiff ad campaigns targeting your patients and handle counter-campaigns.
If a claim comes, we're already here
You don't lose six weeks to onboarding and a discovery scramble. We already know your charts and your center, including the post-op course you barely remember from two years ago.
See it on your own charts.
Single bariatric leak verdicts have reached eight figures, with most cases turning on a window of unaddressed post-op vitals. RiskShield will review a sample of your charts under privilege, at no cost, and check whether anyone is running ads against your center right now.
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