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Article: Legal Review & Commentary: Failure to refer, diagnose, and properly chart care leads to fatal cardiac arrest: $1.5M verdict.
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- Emergency Medicine Reports
- Article date:
- October 1, 2009
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Legal Review & Commentary
Failure to refer, diagnose, and properly chart care leads to fatal cardiac arrest: $1.5M verdict
By Radha V. Bachman, Esq. Lynn Rosenblatt, CRRN, LHRM
Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney PC HealthSouth Sea Pines Rehabilitation Hospital
Tampa, Florida Melbourne, FL
News: A 59-year-old woman was admitted to the observation area of a local hospital. The woman was thought to have had an allergic reaction to cholesterol medication she was taking, and the staff recommended she remain under observation for 23 hours. The next morning, the woman experienced chest pains and the nurse administered meperidine and ...