Medical Malpractice

Bronx, Brooklyn, Long Island, Queens, Manhattan, New York City, NY

Anesthesia Malpractice

 

This case involves New York medical malpractice during anesthesia. The baby boy was born with a congenital heart condition and required multiple heart surgeries to correct his defect. During one of the heart surgeries he sustained brain damage due to a lack of oxygen during anesthesia due to the medical malpractice of the hospital. The baby was born on October 19th at New Jersey Hospital #1 with a congenital heart defect diagnosed as a double-inlet single right ventricle, pulmonary atresia right aortic arch, and hypoplastic right ventricle.

 

The infant was transferred to New York Hospital #1, where he underwent a modified Blalock-Taussig shunt on October 21st. On November 5th, re-operation of the left pulmonary artery plasty was performed, with the placement of a left pulmonary artery patch angioplasty with pulmonary homograt and bidirectional Glenn shunt. This congenital heart defect was managed by a series of three surgeries. The aforementioned procedures were performed without complication and the infant was discharged from New York Hospital #1 on November 10th after a relatively uncomplicated recovery following the secondary surgery.

 

A third surgery was performed on June 21st at defendant New York Hospital #1, at which time the infant suffered severe lack of oxygen followed by bradycardia and hypotension, requiring CPR. He was placed on cardiopulmonary bypass urgently. Sadly, he sustained massive anoxic brain damage manifested by cortical blindness, seizures and neuromuscular problems. The infant’s injuries occurred when defendant doctors failed to diagnose the collapse of his left lung prior to surgery and after insertion of an endotracheal tube. The defendants were negligent in not recognizing the dislodgment and/or displacement of the endotracheal tube, as well as the lack of movement of the left lung, thereby causing a loss of oxygen for approximately 10-15 minutes.

Briefly, it was plaintiffs' theory that the acts of negligence of the defendants involved the failure to timely and properly use a bypass machine; in failing to provide proper ventilation during surgery; in failing to properly observe the infant plaintiff during a surgical procedure and the administration of anesthesia; in failing to timely and properly attach a cardiac monitor; in failing to properly oxygenate the infant plaintiff; in failing to properly insure resuscitation of infant plaintiff; in failing to timely and/or properly intubate the infant-plaintiff; in failing to timely and/or properly remove airway obstructions, secretions, mucus and/or blood; in causing infant plaintiff to suffer pneumomediastinum and pneumothorax; and in failing to treat hypoxic insult.

 

These failures by the defendants were a proximate cause of the infant’s significant injuries which include cardiac arrest, anoxic brain damage, cortical blindness, cerebral palsy, seizure disorder, and need for gastric tube feedings. The infant now requires intensive occupational, physical, speech and vocational therapies and will be unable to work or function normally.

As a result of the medical malpractice that occurred in the New York Hospital #1 and a multitude of injuries suffered by the infant plaintiff, the infant and mother received a substantial multimillion dollar recovery.

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Case #4464

 

Silberstein, Awad & Miklos, P.C.
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