Our 18 year old client suffered severe brain damage when his doctor chose to wait a month to replace a malfunctioning internal defibrillator. He later died.
The case settled before suit was filed for a confidential amount.
Our client's husband was under the care and treatment of his family practitioner with a history of hypertension. The hypertension had been controlled by medication. He developed shortness of breath and had his medication changed. Shortly thereafter, he telephoned the defendant physician with continued complaints of shortness of breath and chest pressure and stated that he thought he was dying. Nevertheless, he was not seen by his doctor until the following day, when he was referred to a cardiologist. Treadmill stress test was positive for ischemia by EKG criteria with a rise in his blood pressure during the early recovery phase. Following the exam, the decedent was sent home with instructions to return to the hospital for a cardiac catheterization. He returned for the procedure and was admitted. On the way to the cath lab, it was noted that he was suffering shortness of breath. He quickly worsened and a code was initiated. Once he was stabilized on a ventilator and a Nitroglycerine drip, he was taken to the cardiac cath lab for coronary angiography. He decompensated again and was emergently transferred to another hospital where emergency coronary artery bypass surgery was performed. The plaintiff expired eight hours later.
The case settled before suit was filed for a confidential amount.
The defendants failed to perform emergent surgery once they diagnosed our client's husband with an eight centimeter abdominal aortic aneurysm. As a result, eight hours after coming under the defendants' care and five hours after diagnosis, his abdominal aortic aneurysm ruptured causing him to undergo an emergent abdominal aortic aneurysmectomy. During the surgery he sustained massive blood loss causing multi-system failure and cardiac arrest necessitating resuscitation and placement on total life support for several hours prior to his death at the age of 61.
The case settled before suit was filed for a confidential amount.
Our client's decedent was cared for and treated by his doctor at various times over nearly ten years for problems including elevated cholesterol, high blood pressure, chest pain, obesity, and a family history of coronary artery disease. He suffered a fatal heart attack at age 32 while playing racquetball.
The case settled before suit was filed for a confidential amount.
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