{"id":5331,"date":"2010-06-08T08:20:44","date_gmt":"2010-06-08T15:20:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aitkenlaw.com\/news\/?p=395"},"modified":"2010-06-08T08:20:44","modified_gmt":"2010-06-08T15:20:44","slug":"mother-bleeds-to-death-after-giving-birth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.aitkenlaw.com\/newsite\/2010\/06\/08\/mother-bleeds-to-death-after-giving-birth\/","title":{"rendered":"$450,000: Mother\/Wife Bleeds to Death in Hospital after Giving Birth"},"content":{"rendered":"

TYPE OF CASE: <\/strong> Medical Malpractice<\/a>, Wrongful Death<\/a><\/p>\n

INJURIES: <\/strong> Wrongful death of wife and mother<\/p>\n

DATE & LOCATION OF INCIDENT:<\/strong> August 12, 2003<\/p>\n

PLAINTIFF\u2019S AGE:<\/strong> Father (age 43) and 6 children ranging from newborn to 20 years of age<\/p>\n

Plaintiff\u2019s decedent, a 40 year old wife and mother bled to death in Defendants hospital after giving birth to her sixth healthy child.<\/p>\n

CASE DESCRIPTION<\/strong>:  Plaintiff\u2019s decedent was a 40 year old wife and mother who was a patient in Roe Hospital giving birth to her sixth child.  Plaintiff\u2019s decedent gave birth to a healthy baby boy.  Subsequent to giving birth, Plaintiff\u2019s decedent continued to bleed.  It became necessary to provide a blood transfusion; but availability of the blood was delayed and the need for the transfusion was not identified quickly enough.  Defendants had drawn blood from her for purposes of typing and cross-matching upon admission to the hospital and also after she gave birth, but either failed to send the blood that was drawn to the lab stat or lost the blood sample.  Eventually Defendant Roe Hospital was able to type and cross-match the blood and Defendant Roe doctor ordered a transfusion for Plaintiff\u2019s decedent.  By the time Plaintiff\u2019s decedent received the transfusion, she was suffering from irreversible blood loss, and passed away.<\/p>\n

FINAL RESULT:  $450,000<\/strong><\/p>\n

PLAINTIFF\u2019S CONTENTIONS AS TO LIABLITY: <\/strong> Plaintiff\u2019s contended that Defendants failed to ensure that Plaintiff\u2019s decedent received blood transfusion in a timely manner.<\/p>\n

DEFENDANTS\u2019 CONTENTIONS AS TO LIABLITY: <\/strong>Defendants contended that the patient had stopped bleeding and therefore did not monitor or act to replace blood as promptly as they otherwise would have.  When the bleeding began “again,” it was not stoppable due to disseminated intravascular coagulation.<\/p>\n

TYPE OF CASE: <\/strong> Medical Malpractice<\/a>, Wrongful Death<\/a><\/p>\n

INJURIES: <\/strong> Wrongful death of wife and mother<\/p>\n

DATE & LOCATION OF INCIDENT:<\/strong> August 12, 2003<\/p>\n

PLAINTIFF\u2019S AGE:<\/strong> Father (age 43) and 6 children ranging from newborn to 20 years of age<\/p>\n

PLAINTIFF\u2019S ATTORNEYS:<\/strong>
\nRichard A. Cohn, Esq.
\nAITKEN, AITKEN & COHN
\nFor Plaintiffs \u2013 Doe Plaintiffs<\/p>\n

DEFENDANT\u2019S ATTORNEYS:<\/strong>
\nConfidential
\nFor Defendants \u2013 Roe Hospital<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

TYPE OF CASE: Medical Malpractice, Wrongful Death INJURIES: Wrongful death of wife and mother DATE & LOCATION OF INCIDENT: August 12, 2003 PLAINTIFF\u2019S AGE: Father (age 43) and 6 children ranging from newborn to 20 years of age Plaintiff\u2019s decedent, a 40 year old wife and mother bled to death in Defendants hospital after giving… 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":[32],"tags":[494],"class_list":["post-5331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-verdicts-settlements","tag-medical-malpractice"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aitkenlaw.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5331","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=5331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.aitkenlaw.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5331\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aitkenlaw.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aitkenlaw.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aitkenlaw.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}