$2,250,000 Medical Malpractice – For a woman who suffered an anoxic brain Injury following surgery

A young wife and mother of 2 went in for surgery to remove skin cancer. The surgery was more complicated than initially expected and thus she was under anesthesia for over six hours while doctors removed cancerous cells. The surgery was a success.  What happened next was not.

After that amount of anesthesia, a patient needs to be monitored.  That is the reason to keep a patient in the hospital overnight, and per protocol, the hospital kept her overnight for monitoring.  Unfortunately, she wasn’t monitored.  The night nurse (even assuming she checked on her at all) failed to check and record vitals such as heart rate, blood pressure, etc., and there was no machine monitoring vitals either.  When the nurse finally came in to get vitals in the morning, she discovered that she barely had a pulse.  Code Blue was called.

Our client was resuscitated but not before she suffered permanent brain damage.  As a result, her short term memory is impaired.  If you met her, you would not know anything was wrong, until she apologized for asking what your name was again, and then did it again, forgetting that she had just asked.  To function, her husband has to make a list every day of what she is to do and then she crosses those items off as she does them.  Fortunately, the money recovered from the hospital went toward getting the family much needed help with the kids and making multiple accommodations to their family home.

Bryan Baer

Attorney Bryan Baer has twenty (20) years of legal experience representing clients in serious and catastrophic personal injury and medical malpractice cases. He has been first chair in more than a dozen twelve-person jury trials on both the plaintiff and defense sides. Recognized as a leader in his legal community, he is frequently asked to speak at legal seminars on trial topics ranging from “Best Practices in Voire Dire” to “Maximizing Damages at Trial” as well as insurance issues such as “Navigating the Insurance Landscape” and “Injury Demands & Negotiations.” Learn more here.