Time is of the essence with regards to diagnosis and therapy in an effort to prevent complications related to overwhelming infection/sepsis. Early detection is key. Perforations detected within the first 24-72 hours often can be repaired primarily by surgical intervention ...
CEP America (filed May 1, 2019) – After a 60-year-old woman had a laparoscopic surgery she suffered a bowel perforation that went undetected and caused her to develop multiple organ failure and sepsis resulting in her death. (Kelly v.
His postoperative diagnosis was an esophageal perforation, inflammation of mid-chest tissues (mediastinitis), and severe sepsis. The man was taken back to surgery several days later for a video-assisted chest examination.
University of Maryland Emergency Medicine (filed on January 9, 2017): This Prince George's County wrongful death case involves the failure to diagnose and treat sepsis in a leukemia patient in the emergency room at Bowie Health Center (owned by Dimensions ...
A transected ureter can cause renal failure, kidney injury, hydronephrosis, pyelonephritis, deep vein thrombosis, postoperative global cardiac ischemia , sepsis , postoperative pleural effusion, multi-organ failure, postoperative urinoma, postoperative psoas abscess, and postoperative peritonitis.
Crohn's disease, irritable bowel syndrome, etc.), and more severe injuries such as bowel perforation, sepsis , and splenic tear/rupture. Certainly, not all of these injuries are from medical malpractice. In fact, as discussed below, the vast majority of bowel perforations ...
More Malpractice Claim Information A case filed against Suburban Orthopedics in January 2016 Another case filed in Charles County, this one alleging wrongful death due to the failure to diagnose sepsis in a newborn
More Malpractice Claim Information A case filed in 2016 against Kaiser , alleging the failure to diagnosis sepsis Get the real story on surgical malpractice cases in Maryland Sample settlements and verdicts in surgical malpractice cases
More Malpractice Claim Information Read about a case filed in 2016 alleging wrongful death due to misdiagnosis of an aortic dissection Similar cases filed in 2017: A failure to diagnose the rupture of an aortic aneurysm case, filed in Dorchester ...
nursing home cases filed in Maryland in 2017: A wrongful death bedsore case filed in Anne Arundel County A nursing home wrongful death claim against Shady Grove, a Genesis facility A case filed in January against a FutureCare facility alleging ...