Defibrillator - Jury Verdicts

______ $300,000 - Medical Malpractice Medical Malpractice - Non-functional Defibrillator - Death - Wrongful Death - Settlement
Facts: Plaintiff's decedent, a retired Baltimore attorney, was admitted to Defendant Homewood Hospital Center with angina. He was stabilized and then prepared for transfer to St. Joseph's Hospital for balloon angioplasty. Decedent was boarded on Defendant May's ambulance. Prior to departure ,he went into ventricular fibrillation with full arrest. Code was called and resuscitation initiated....
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______ $250,000 - Medical Malpractice Medical Malpractice - Cardiac Implant - Lacerated Vein - Wrongful Death - Settlement
Facts: Plaintiff's decedent was admitted to Ohio State University Hospital for placement of a permanent automatic implantable cardio-defibrillator (AICD). During the procedure, decedent's blood pressure dropped. Defendant thoracic surgeon opened the left side of decedent's chest, but found no source of the drop. Defendant then opened the right side of decedent's chest and discovered a bleed...
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______ Defense verdict - Motor Vehicle Auto Accident - Rear-end - Fatality Six Months Post-accident - Wrongful Death - Liability Admitted - Defense Verdict
Facts: Defendant, an elderly woman, rear-ended a vehicle operated by plaintiff's decedent. The impact was insignificant. Decedent had a long standing preexisting heart condition and had both a defibrillator and a pacemaker. He died six months post-accident.

Plaintiff alleged that: (1) defendant was negligent in failing to stop within an assured clear distance ahead; (2) dec...
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______ $300,000. See Editor's Note. - Products Liability Products Liability - Defibrillator Device - Infection - Settlement
Facts: Plaintiff presented to the hospital for surgery to implant a defibrillator device into his heart. The first device, a product developed by Defendant Medtronics, Inc., did not solve plaintiff's problem. While plaintiff was still under anesthesia, plaintiff's wife gave permission for the physician to implant a second, experimental device. Defendant's technical staff, who were attending...
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______ Defense verdict - Employment Whistleblower - Medical Record Change - Termination - Wrongful Termination - Defense Verdict
Facts: Plaintiff was a registered nurse who worked for Defendant Correctional Medical Systems, a service corporation for government agencies. She had written medical notes regarding a patient who died and was asked by a superior to amend the notes. She was asked to change "defibrillator" to "automatic external defibrillator." Plaintiff refused to make the change and claimed she was terminat...
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______ Defense verdict - Medical Malpractice Medical Malpractice - Fatality - Drug Toxicity - Defense Verdict - Wrongful Death
Facts: Plaintiff's decedent presented to Defendant Brahmbhatt, a cardiologist, for treatment of severe heart disease. Decedent developed ventricular tachycardia which defendant treated in consultation with an electrophysiologist. Decedent was treated by defendant with an internal cardiac defibrillator and the anti-arrhythmic medication, Amiodarone. Decedent spent over one year in good condi...
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______ $250,000 - Poorly Equipped Ambulance Results In Wrongful Death Verdict
Facts: A Wayne County jury determined that Detroit EMT, a city emergency medical transport company, should pay a heart attack victim $250,000 for failing to have an ambulance properly serviced for use.

Plaintiff's decedent, 48 year old Meredith Nelson, suffered a heart attack and called for defendant EMT, located two blocks away. Defendant's only available ambulance (at the tim...
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______ $1,750,000 Breakdown: $1,000,000 from defendant ambulance company, $750,000 from defendant urgent care center. - Heart Attack Claims Life of Patient Because Urgent Care Center Had No Defibrillator and Failed to Call 911
Facts: An urgent care center who failed to call 911 and instead relied on its own ambulance company settled for $1.75 Million after one of its patients died while awaiting an ambulance.

Plaintiff's decedent was a 34 year old male who presented to defendant urgent care center with chest pain. An EKG revealed decedent was suffering a myocardial infarction and within minutes, dece...
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______ Defense verdict - Paramedics Not Responsible for Patient's Death Despite Defibrillator Failure
Facts: Paramedics were not found to be responsible for the death of a 38 year old woman who suffered heart failure. The jury found that their non-working defibrillator did not cause her death, rather her death was the result of a long history of medical problems.

Decedent Means, a 38 year old woman with young children, suffered heart and lung damage seven years before this event...
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______ Defense verdict - Physicians Not Responsible for Man's Sudden Cardiac Death
Facts: A Franklin County jury found no negligence in this case involving the sudden death of a 39 year old male who was being treated for complete heart block after three hours of deliberation.

Plaintiff's decedent, John Alcorn, was a 39 year old shuttle bus driver. In 1996, decedent presented to the emergency room with symptoms of fatigue, shortness of breath and blackouts. Upo...
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