Our client's wife died at the age of 66 when a catheter malfunctioned during elective surgery.
The case settled before suit was filed for a confidential amount.
The defendants in this case negligently performed an unnecessary surgery on a pediatric patient, without ever engaging the services of a pediatric surgeon to consult or assist on the case. Our client, an eleven-year-old young man, presented to a local surgical association for consultation and potential surgical treatment. After examining the young man, the defendant admitted the young man to a local hospital for laparoscopic excision and endoscopy of the small intestine. After finding no obvious lesion during abdominal exploration, the defendant continued to dissect the young man's abdomen, freeing up adhesions, dividing vessels, dividing the Allen’s veil, removing a lesion using an Endo-GIA stapler, conducting an endoscopy, and freeing the stomach to the duodenum. The unnecessary surgery resulted in significant complications, including an insult to the vagus nerve and a second surgery, which resulted in a permanent pseudocyst in the GI tract and division of the pancreatic duct. While hospitalized, the young man developed pneumonia, an infection, and dehydration, which combined to further delay his recovery. All of these complications resulted from the defendants’ initial, unnecessary surgery. The young man spent eleven days in the hospital, suffered through two unnecessary and improperly performed surgeries, and will suffer from ongoing gastrointestinal problems and abdominal pain for the remainder of his life.
The parties reached an agreement to settle for a confidential amount.
This is a wrongful death medical negligence claim involving a 52-year-old man, who came under the care of a local medical center for removal of a kidney tumor via laparoscopic nephrectomy. During that surgery, the decedent suffered an intra operative bowel perforation that went unrecognized by the defendants’ medical personnel for more than 24 hours, causing stool to seep into his system and resulting in sepsis, multi organ system failure, a second corrective surgery and, ultimately, his death after suffering through more than 24 hours of extreme pain, suffering, and other injuries and impairments. The estate of the decedent brought suit against the defendant medical center. At the time of his death, the plaintiff was a married, local restaurant owner with two teenage children.
The parties settled after suit but prior to trial for a confidential amount.
Our client, a 56 year-old man, underwent a Nissen Fundoplication, which was performed laparoscopically. Immediately following this procedure, our client reported difficulty breathing and pain in his chest and shoulders. Several post-procedure examinations were performed, including a barium swallow, but no abnormalities were revealed. After many weeks of difficulty swallowing, abdominal/epigastric pain and loss of weight, an endoscopy was performed. During this procedure, a 3cm triangular shaped plastic foreign object was found to be lodged against the intestinal wall which could not be retrieved by endoscopy. A laparotomy procedure was performed and the foreign object was retrieved. Part of the man’s stomach was also removed. The foreign object retrieved was the blade extender from the laryngoscope, which was dislodged during the earlier procedure. The man suffered abdominal/epigastric pain and discomfort as a result of having a foreign body in his stomach and difficultly swallowing, which resulted in his losing 45 pounds. Additionally, he incurred further costly medical and hospital care and treatment.
The case settled before suit was initiated.
Our client, a fifty-two year-old woman, was admitted to the hospital with a three-day history of intermittent epigastric pressure and pain. Multiple gallstones were demonstrated via ultrasound and a laparoscopic cholecystectomy was performed the following day. Numerous surgeons from the defendant surgical practice attended the woman during this admission. Our client was discharged but readmitted four days later with weakness, dizziness, abdominal pain, and nausea. During the hospitalization, large amounts of bile drainage continued with studies suggesting that there was a complete occlusion of the common bile duct. She was then transferred to another facility. Due to a subsequent finding of an occlusion to the common right hepatic artery and extrahepatic bile duct injuries, the plaintiff underwent an exploratory laparotomy hepaticojejunostomy and three biliary septoplasties. As a result of the negligence of the defendants, the woman required intricate repair surgery, incurred nearly two hundred thousand dollars in medical bills and remains at risk for complications that could require a liver transplant.
Settled after suit but before trial for a confidential amount.
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