Maryland Personal Injury Lawyer Blog

The mother of 17-year-old female has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against a church-run treatment center and three of its former employees after she died while being restrained. The suit alleges that the victim was held by staff members in a prone position which caused her death.

The county coroner ruled that the victim's death was a homicide, saying that the teen suffocated and choked on her own vomit while employees restrained her. The President of the treatment center, who runs the center, stated that the staff is taught to use a face-up method to restrain patients. The face-down restraint position was banned in Ohio in November and several states and has been prohibited by several other agencies who oversee treatment homes and centers.

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The parents of minor filed a $40 million lawsuits against a Swim Club and the company that runs and manages the swim club, accusing them of failing to both "timely recognize and respond" to the struggling boy and to properly perform resuscitation efforts. In July 2006, a15-year-old male was swimming at the club where he almost drowned and was without adequate oxygen for almost 10 minutes. Paramedics were able to get a pulse back but the boy suffered severe brain damage and is now severely disabled, confined to a wheelchair and cannot speak.

The amount of the claim is said to be the best estimate of what it will cost to care for him for the rest of his life. The attorney for the swim club and management company says that minor child's brain injury was not caused by the near-drowning but instead by a heart attack that he suffered in the pool. The attorney states that he was pulled out of the pool less than a minute after he showed signs of struggling and never went to the bottom. He was given CPR immediately by a Maryland Shock Trauma nurse who happened to be at the pool at the time.

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The Indiana Medical Review Panel found that an Orthopaedic group failed to comply with appropriate standards of care that led to a woman having her leg amputated and cleared the way for the woman to go forward with her lawsuit. The patient went to an Orthopaedic group three times in March 2006 with signs and symptoms of a vascular problem in her leg. She was not diagnosed with the vascular problem and was instead given two injections into her knee.

On April 10, 2006, The patient was admitted to the hospital for loss of blood flow to her right foot and a large acute blood clot in the artery that supplies the blood to the knee and thigh. Her leg was amputated above the knee on April 14. The patient contends that the Orthopaedic group fell below the required standard of car by failing to test for the loss of blood flow in her foot after noting a lack of pulse, reddened foot and reports of unexplained pain. She was also not given a timely referral to a vascular surgeon or cardiologist.

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According to a recent study between 2004 and September 2008, New York issued 16 citations to hospitals for incomplete, altered or missing medical records. In a review of the documents, it was found that the records were altered or missing when a medical screw-up was involved. Workers at city-run hospitals faked records to cover up incidents or claimed that they couldn't find the data when investigators asked.

One such incident occurred at New York Hospital. A young man showed up on September 8, 2005 and was diagnosed as suffering a "cardiac event." An IV was placed by a fourth-year medical student but it was listed in the records that a medical doctor administered the IV since med students are allowed to. Over the next two days, the medical student and several nurses made entries into the record that the patient's arm was fine, was "warm to the touch" and that there were "no signs of inflammation." During this time however, his arm was covered from the knuckles to his elbows in a material called Kerlix. When the Kerlix was removed, patient's arm was blistering and his left hand was "cool to touch and pulseless." The patient ended up having his arm amputated at the elbow.

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