Nobody should ever experience what Jessica Powell (28) happened: after a weakness the young teacher was brought to the first aid. When she woke up, she missed both legs. Twelve years later there is a little justice for the American.
Due to serious liquid loss as a result of a gastric virus, Powell broke out in March 2013 and was brought to the First Aid. When the woman woke up in the hospital bed, she missed both legs – because of a serious case of medical blunt. It took twelve years before the 28-year-old case finally came to court.
The jury lasted only 30 minutes to give the teacher the greatest compensation in the history of the state of Georgia: $ 70 million.
Administered too high dose
The emergency doctors in the Putney Memorial Hospital had given Powell the Vasopressin medication more than 40 hours after the birth. With the antiuretic hormone your blood pressure must be increased and your water and electrolyte balance is restored. The problem: the medical file later proved that the patient received a dose that was the highest two and a half times as the prescribed maximum dose of the medication.
No oxygen in the lower body
During the witness bank, medical experts said that the overdose of the blood vessels so extremely limited that the blood supply was interrupted by the body of Powell. As a result, no oxygen was transported in the legs and feet. Because the patient then suffered sepsis, the doctors amputed both legs above her knees to save her life.
Powell complained the treating doctors to Dr. Joe Morgan, Dr. James Palazzolo, Dr. Thomas Hungarino and the Albany Vascular Specialist Center. Everyone referred to the claim of negligence and medical error with the words: “The amputations were needed to save their vital organs.” They then claimed that Powell’s legs were “irreparable when they were introduced”.
Process delayed for ten years
For more than ten years, the doctors, the hospital and the insurance companies have been delayed a trial until Powell finally happened to the jury of the Dougherty County Supreme Court Jury. Your lawyer Matt Cook in the “Atlanta Journal”: “If a jury only needs half an hour to get a unanimous opinion, it all says that the responsible person did not want to admit their mistakes, now they have to pay for it!”
Source: Krone
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