- 4,350,000 Brain Injury Pretrial Settlement (Illinois): Sometimes women have uncontrolled bleeding immediately after delivering a child. If left untreated, the woman can die. It is, therefore, a condition that the physicians must watch for and treat immediately. In this case, a young woman had uncontrolled bleeding after delivering her first child. Although she was in the hospital, her signs of distress went unnoticed. She bled for some time and, as a result, she suffered severe brain damage.
- $4,000,000 Brain Injury-Pretrial Settlement (Illinois): Severe headaches should never be ignored. They can be signs of infection or something called a brain aneurysm (sometimes also called cerebral or intracranial aneurysm). A brain aneurysm is an abnormal bulging in one of the arteries of the brain. If you've ever blown up a long balloon, an aneurysm is like the bulge in the balloon when you first start to inflate it. This bulge is usually very thin, and susceptible to leaking or breaking. When a brain aneurysm leaks, it causes severe headaches. If a doctor ignores severe headaches, the leak can grow and cause profound brain injury. A doctor diagnoses a brain aneurysm by a test called an MRA, or magnetic resonance angiography, which takes a picture of the arteries in the brain. In this case, the patient came in with severe headaches, the doctor ordered an MRA, but the radiologist misread the MRA, which showed a very large and dangerous brain aneurysm. The brain aneurysm leaked and caused severe brain injury.
- $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 nurses 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. $1,750,000 Wrongful Death-Pretrial Settlement (Illinois): This was another brain aneurysm case, except here, the doctor (radiologist) recognized the aneurysm, but failed to communicate his findings to the physician who ordered the test. The physician did not receive the written report until after a 3 day holiday. In the interim, the brain aneurysm ruptured and the patient, an elderly man, died.
- $1,350,000 Brain Injury Pretrial Settlement (Illinois): A breast biopsy is a simple, routine procedure. Here, during the procedure, a woman suffered a heart attack which caused brain damage.
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