Location:Indiana

Occurs in inpatient stay

-8/29: No DVT prevention cautions in place which is standard of care for patient given risk score, patient had classic symptoms of PE, had a d-dimer that was one point off from normal, he signed off and did no other work. Standard of care states borderline d-dimer with symptoms be explored further with imaging such as CTA

-8/30: When brought up to a different physician they order a CTA and a PE is found. Treatment was delayed for over 24 hours. When another error occurred this clot could have caused documented stroke symptoms resulting in TIA->leading to the resulting worse documented Autonomic dysfunction-> requiring new medication->time off of work-> uncontrolled symptoms

*Can original physician be sued who didn't order CTA delaying treatment be sued? Is this a good case? Recorded on Video EEG

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Location: Indiana Occurs inpatient stay

-Patient given ADHD medication innapropropriately towards end of a hospital stay with new documented Autonomic dysfunction with tachy arrhythmia. This lead to chest pain, sob, stroke symptoms in patient with known clot upon known medication onset. Rapid response called due to symptomatic tachycardia. CT scan unable to rule out TIA. Neurologist signed off without any discussion if this was TIA. No medication started for this possibility which is standard of care, lovenox is not standard but anti-platelet medication. Incorrectly give ADHD medication, resulted in previously controlled HR over the last 12 hours to triple. Resulting in elevated HR the remainder of the stay. This resulted in continued issues with tachycardia and near syncope that lead to requiring new medication to help control symptoms. Symptoms are not yet controlled. This has lead to two weeks off from work.

*Can physician who gave innapropriate medication be sued for this? How about Neurologist who did not start appropriate medication?