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DISCLAIMER: The above results are specific to the facts and legal circumstances of each of the above clients' cases and should not be used to form an expectation that the same results could be obtained for other clients in similar matters without reference to the specific factual and legal circumstances of each client’s case.

$1.375 Million Settlement Due To Nursing Error

We represented a 46 year-old gentleman who suffered an anoxic brain injury when he was oversedated in the hospital following coronary artery bypass surgery. The nurse caring for him noted in the chart that our client was "unarousable," but she took no action. When she checked on our client 30 minutes later during her normal rounds, our client was totally unresponsive and suffered cardiorespiratory distress. The medications he had been prescribed all acted as central nervous system depressants and, in combination, just shut down his heart and lungs. Had the nurse recognized the signs of overmedication, the medications could have been easily reversed and our client would have suffered no injury. However, the nurse ignored the fact that he ws unarousable and failed to intervene in a timely fashion before our client went into cardiac arrest. By the time that our client ws resuscitated and placed on a ventilator, he had suffered an irreversible brain injury that left him totally disabled. At the time of this settlement, Virginia had a statutory cap on damages of $1.5 million.

Awarded: $1,375,000.00

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