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Hospital Injury Lawsuits
 

• $2,500,000 Brain Injury-Pretrial Settlement (Florida): After surgery, patients are brought to a place called the recovery room. It is called the recovery room because it is the place where the patient recovers from the anesthesia. Basically, it is the place where the nurses and doctors watch the patient to make sure they wake up. In this case, the doctors failed to monitor the breathing of a forty-three year old woman who was struggling to come out of her sedation. As a result, she was deprived of oxygen and suffered severe brain injury.

• $1,250,000 Wrongful Death-Pretrial Settlement (Illinois): A hospital has the duty to supply the equipment necessary to care for the patients it admits. This not only means having equipment that works right, but having the right equipment. In this case, a 75 year old man had a blocked coronary artery (main artery that supplies blood to the heart). To fix it, the doctor needed a piece of equipment called a stent, which is a wire mesh tube that is used to prop open the artery while the blockage is cleaned out. This stent then stays in place to keep the artery nice and wide for a better flow of blood. In this case, the hospital did not stock the right sized stent, and took four weeks to get the right size. While waiting for the right sized stent, the patient died of a massive heart attack.

• $975,000 Wrongful Death-Midtrial Settlement (Illinois): Pain killers are important, but they are well-known to have unpredictable effects, and can inhibit breathing. This is almost never a problem if the patient's breathing is monitored and steps taken to correct any depression of breathing. In this case, a young man in his early twenties died from the effects of his pain killers after his nurse failed to check on him, and then lied about it.

• $900,000 Wrongful Death-Midtrial Settlement (Illinois): Children and infections go together. Thankfully, most infections in children are minor and resolve on their own. Sometimes, however, an infection worsens and the child gets hospitalized for specialized treatment. While in the hospital, nurses and doctors are expected to monitor infected patients, especially children, to make sure they are breathing and properly hydrated. In this case, a four year old boy was hospitalized with a very curable infection; however, the nurses failed to monitor him, and missed his increasing dehydration. He died as a result.

If you have suffered a serious injury caused by medical malpractice, or a loved one has been seriously injured or died, we invite you to contact our firm and talk to one of our physician attorneys about whether a lawsuit would protect your best interests.

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