Results

A patient suffered respiratory arrest at the start of surgery and died.

Claims involved significant neurologic injury to a child during post-surgical care.

A patient suffered brain damage following inadequate blood flow in the operating room.

Failure to diagnose a spinal epidural abscess, which led to the patient’s quadriplegia.

Failure to anticoagulate patient with mechanical heart valve during elective surgical procedure.

Failure to properly read a chest x-ray and note the presence of a mass in the patient’s lung, which later proved to be malignant. Because of the delayed diagnosis, the patient died of lung cancer.

Failure to adequately train for, prepare for and perform minimally invasive heart surgery, resulting in vessel disruption and death.

A tracheostomy tube was dislodged by a nurse, and not inserted properly by a doctor. Brain damage resulted from a lack of oxygen. Settled during trial.

Back surgery/post-op care/paralysis. A spinal hematoma was not timely diagnosed, resulting in spinal cord damage and paralysis.

Failure to appropriately use a surgical robot that resulted in brain damage. The patient sustained substantial neurological impairment as a result.

Three-year-old was injured and died because of surgery and post-operative complications.

A woman sustained brain damage and died from a lack of oxygen during shoulder surgery.

A patient was discharged with a broken neck resulting in eventual paralysis after an x-ray was read incorrectly.

Failure to properly treat a heart attack.

ER doctors failed to recognize a bleed that led to death.

Back surgery/paralysis case. A neurosurgeon used improper thoracic approach and cut spinal artery.

Patient was injured during placement of implantable penile prosthesis. As a result, the patient suffered a perforated bowel, resulting in sepsis, loss of prosthesis, and short bowel syndrome.

Neck injury misdiagnosed by emergency department doctor. Patient became a quadriplegic when doctor moved patient’s head.

Failure to recognize an abnormal EKG and heart attack.

Doctor stopped patient’s asthma medicine 5 days before surgery. Patient had an asthma attack in the recovery room. Anesthesia personnel inserted endotracheal tube in esophagus, not in airway, resulting in the patient dying.

Failure post-operatively to recognize a catastrophic ureteral injury resulting in permanent loss of bladder function.

Failure to diagnose a bacterial infection resulting in death.

Patient suffered months of eye infections due to retained cotton packing left during eye surgery resulting in pain, suffering, and permanent loss of vision.

A patient died because a physician in the Emergency Room failed to diagnose and treat an abscess.

A large national laboratory failed to properly interpret cytology slides resulting in the delayed diagnosis of cervical cancer.

Physicians failed to diagnose a bowel perforation after laparoscopy resulting in a patient’s death.

Failure to appropriately prepare for, train for, credential for gastric bypass surgery, resulting in postoperative wounds and neurologic injuries.

Patient experienced permanent damage in vaginal and perineal areas resulting in loss of sexual function and incontinence due to injury during surgery.

During a laparoscopic procedure a surgical error was made and the patient’s common bile duct was cut, resulting injuries.