28 year old female in labor was administered an epidural by a resident anesthesiologist. The epidural was allegedly misdirected and the procedure was complicated by a dural puncture. As a result, the plaintiff had brain swelling and suffered from seizures. Does the fact that dural puncture occurred indicate a deviation from the standard of care? [...]
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Aug 8, 2011 : EPIDURAL CAUSES DURAL PUNCTURE
Aug 8, 2011 : RETRACTOR PLACEMENT CAUSES NERVE INJURY
The patient, a 58 y/o male, was admitted to the hospital with severe diverticulitis. A general surgeon performed an exploratory laparotomy, lysis of adhesions, takedown of the sigmoid flexure with sigmoid and partial left colectomy withdescending colorectostomy and appendectomy. A Bookwalter retractor was used during the surgery. Almost immediately after the surgery the patient experienced [...]
( 0 comments )Aug 8, 2011 : LUMBAR SURGERY LEADS TO BOWEL PERFORATION
Patient developed severe abdominal pain immediately after the performance of L4-S1 laminectomy and fusion with hardware. Thereafter, she had several CT Scans which indicated a bowel perforation. The following morning, patient underwent a laparotomy to repair a small bowel perforation. The pathology report for the laparotomy indicated that a bone fragment was seen within the [...]
( 0 comments )Aug 8, 2011 : BOWEL PERFORATION FOLLOWING TUBAL LIGATION
Patient was in OR for tubal ligation, during procedure patient suffered cardiac arrest and was resuscitated. When the doctor (ob/gyn) returned to the incision site she noted a bowel perforation. A general surgeon was called in to repair the damage, and chose to not remove the damaged portion of bowel and repaired the damage. Patient’s [...]
( 0 comments )Aug 8, 2011 : DELAY IN DIAGNOSING GLAUCOMA
Plaintiff had been seeing a local optometrist for over 20 years and has a family history of Glaucoma. The defendant told him they’d monitor it. Doctor never indicated pt had glaucoma – just that he was suspicious. He never dilated pt’s eyes to check his optic nerves until an associate did. Pt asked to be [...]
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