An 84-year-old patient developed pustular lesions on his face and died after a Veterans Affairs hospital in Kansas City treated him with a drug he was allergic to. The suit was litigated in federal court by and alleged that staff at the VA Medical Center on Linwood Boulevard caused the patient’s death by giving him Ceftriaxone, and the death...
Read MoreI.V. Infiltration is often the source of terrible and unnecessary injury during hospitalization. Most patients admitted to a hospital will receive an IV containing fluids, medication, or a combination of the two. Several commonly administered IV fluids and medications have the potential to cause serious injury if the fluid escapes the vein and “infiltrates” into the surrounding tissue. These...
Read MoreResearch shows parents and other teenage passengers often play a significant role in distracting teenage drivers. Car accidents are the top cause of death for teenagers, according to 2012 data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. In 2011, motor vehicle accidents claimed the lives of roughly 2,650 teens and caused injuries to another 292,000, including some in...
Read MoreOn May 2, 2014, the plaintiff, a 34 year old major in the United States Army, underwent a hysteroscopic myomectomy, a surgical procedure conducted within the confines of the uterus to remove fibroid tumors (also known as myomas). Two surgeons participated in the surgery. The plaintiff contended that the defendant primary surgeon, unaware that she had perforated the uterus...
Read MoreA woman is admitted to the hospital. She suffers a fall on her right side. She is soon taken to radiology due to her complaints of right sided pain. Unfortunately, she is x-rayed on the left side. Of course, the x-ray shows nothing abnormal. Even her physician comes to her room and holds the x-ray and explains that nothing...
Read MoreWhile hospitalized, this mentally infirmed woman had to have a tracheostomy. The trach tube is something that requires regular maintenance and must occasionally be suctioned clear by a device made just for this purpose. The problem here was that the patient was mentally infirmed. She could not even read or write. The medical staff simply came to her room,...
Read MoreOur client, an 82-year-old retired but active female, sustained a complication in connection with the implantation of a neurostimulator. Pre-implantation, the client had experienced a long history of lumbar pain which was refractory to physical therapy, trigger point injections and medication. After undergoing a neurostimulator trial which substantially reduced her pain, client elected to undergo surgery for permanent implantation....
Read MoreOur client, a 59-year-old male, experienced episodic, low back pain during a six month period. His pain, mild at the outset, gradually increased to excruciating. Symptoms included fever and chills. Client sought treatment from his primary care doctor and an orthopedist and twice was admitted into a hospital for evaluation. Nevertheless, client’s true diagnosis remained undetected. Finally, a specialist,...
Read MoreLast August, a Brandsville man’s homemade pickup-bed trailer came loose from his truck and hit a 42 year-old man’s jeep head on near Dawt Mill in Ozark County, Missouri. The man in the jeep was killed, and the woman who was his passenger was critically injured. After the accident, the Brandsville man drove home. He turned himself into authorities...
Read MoreDempsey Kingsland Osteen represented a young child and his parents in a case arising out of alleged child abuse perpetrated on a then two-year-old child at an area daycare. The child, who today has no memory of the abuse, was eventually diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder. He has received comprehensive psychological care which began soon after the abuse came...
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