Three Years And $23 Million Later, Jury Finds Home Care Nurse & Agency Responsible For Neglect Of Patient
A home care-nurse and health care agency in Pennsylvania were found guilty of providing negligent care to a 55-year-old woman who required medical care for her Crohn's disease. The medical malpractice lawsuit was premised upon the nurse's failure to report a catheter-related infection to the woman's doctor. The infection progressed throughout the woman's body to the point that she required extensive hospital care and amputation of both legs. The record verdict of $23.12 million intended to compensate the patient for past and future medical care, lost earning and and pain and suffering. Increased popularity of home health care Perhaps as...
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Untreated Urinary Tract Infections In Nursing Home Patients May Result In Urosepsis
One of the most memorable cases I worked on involved a young man who was in a nursing home following a severe injuries he sustained in a construction accident. Due to the nature of the man's injuries, a catheter was used to drain urine from his bladder. Despite doctors orders to change the catheter every 30 days, months went by without any catheter change. In fact, six months went by without a catheter change. Finally, after six months without a catheter change, a nursing home employee recognized the obvious problems: cloudy / brownish urine and testicles extremely swollen due to...
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