{"id":4480,"date":"2015-09-24T10:45:45","date_gmt":"2015-09-24T17:45:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.aitkenlaw.com\/?p=4480"},"modified":"2015-09-24T10:45:45","modified_gmt":"2015-09-24T17:45:45","slug":"1500000-nurse-negligence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.aitkenlaw.com\/newsite\/2015\/09\/24\/1500000-nurse-negligence\/","title":{"rendered":"$1,500,000: Nurse Negligence Leads to Wrongful Death of Teacher Following Lower Back Surgery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-4482\" src=\"https:\/\/www.aitkenlaw.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/hands.jpg\" alt=\"Daughter holding her mother hand in hospital\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\">CASE DESCRIPTION: <\/strong>Decedent died due to bleeding after low back surgery. He sustained a retroperitoneal hemorrhage, left side from diaphragm to pelvis and an estimated blood loss greater than 1000 cc\u2019s. The bleed was due to a small puncture of a vessel at the time of the surgery. The nurses failed to call the surgeon despite patient experiencing unusual thigh pain and tell-tale signs of bleeding post-surgery, such as an increased pulse but a decreased blood pressure.<\/p>\n<p><strong>FINAL RESULT: 1.5 million settlement at mediation&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>TYPE OF CASE:<\/strong> Medical Malpractice\/Wrongful death<\/p>\n<p><strong>DATE\/TIME OF INCIDENT: <\/strong>12\/5\/13<\/p>\n<p><strong>DECEDENT\u2019S AGE: <\/strong>47<\/p>\n<p><strong>DECEDENT&#8217;S OCCUPATION: <\/strong>Teacher<\/p>\n<p><strong>PLAINTIFFS&#8217; ATTORNEYS:<br \/>\n<\/strong>Richard A. Cohn, Esq.<br \/>\nAITKEN\u2726AITKEN\u2726COHN<br \/>\n3 MacArthur Place, Suite 800<br \/>\nSanta Ana, CA 92707<br \/>\n(714) 434-1424<\/p>\n<p><strong>DEFENDANTS&#8217; ATTORNEYS:<br \/>\n<\/strong>Confidential<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CASE DESCRIPTION: Decedent died due to bleeding after low back surgery. He sustained a retroperitoneal hemorrhage, left side from diaphragm to pelvis and an estimated blood loss greater than 1000 cc\u2019s. The bleed was due to a small puncture of a vessel at the time of the surgery. The nurses failed to call the surgeon&#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.aitkenlaw.com\/newsite\/2015\/09\/24\/1500000-nurse-negligence\/\">read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,24,32],"tags":[37,127,494,495,544,632,667,669,700,844],"class_list":["post-4480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-news","category-verdicts-settlements","tag-1-5-million","tag-back-surgery","tag-medical-malpractice","tag-medical-negligence","tag-nurse-negligence","tag-post-op-surgery","tag-retroperitoneal-hemorrhage","tag-richard-cohn","tag-settlement","tag-wrongful-death"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aitkenlaw.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4480","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aitkenlaw.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aitkenlaw.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aitkenlaw.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aitkenlaw.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4480"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.aitkenlaw.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4480\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aitkenlaw.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aitkenlaw.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aitkenlaw.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}