{"id":2845,"date":"2014-01-10T10:00:17","date_gmt":"2014-01-10T16:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/injury.robertkreisman.com\/?p=2845"},"modified":"2014-01-09T19:55:52","modified_gmt":"2014-01-10T01:55:52","slug":"15-26-million-jury-verdict-brain-damaged-patient-caused-negligent-removal-tracheostomy-tube","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/15-26-million-jury-verdict-brain-damaged-patient-caused-negligent-removal-tracheostomy-tube\/","title":{"rendered":"$15.26 Million Jury Verdict for Brain Damaged Patient Caused by Negligent Removal of Tracheostomy Tube"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--[if gte mso 9]&gt;--><\/p>\n<p><!--[if gte mso 9]&gt;--><\/p>\n<p><!--[if gte mso 10]&gt;--><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Following an automobile accident, Cody Wade, 17, was hospitalized.<span>\u00a0<\/span>The injuries he suffered in the car crash led the hospital\u2019s staff to place a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nlm.nih.gov\/medlineplus\/ency\/article\/002955.htm\">tracheostomy tube<\/a> to help with Cody\u2019s breathing.<span>\u00a0<\/span>A tracheostomy is a surgical procedure in which a doctor creates an opening through the neck to the patient&#8217;s windpipe or trachea.<span>\u00a0<\/span>The tube is placed through that opening to give the patient an airway and to allow for the removal of other secretions from the lungs.<span>\u00a0<\/span>The tube itself is called a tracheostomy tube or a trach tube.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">About a month after the tracheostomy, a hospital staff person removed the trach tube in anticipation of Cody\u2019s transferral to a rehabilitation hospital.<span>\u00a0<\/span>When the tube was removed, Cody experienced tachycardia and labored breathing.<span>\u00a0<\/span>Tachycardia is a condition of rapid heartbeat.<span>\u00a0<\/span>Generally, a resting heart rate over 100 beats per minute is considered tachycardic.<span>\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Because of Cody\u2019s condition, the trach tube was reinserted.<span>\u00a0<\/span>Medical tests revealed that there was swelling in Cody\u2019s airway.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/15-26-million-jury-verdict-brain-damaged-patient-caused-negligent-removal-tracheostomy-tube\/#more-2845\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following an automobile accident, Cody Wade, 17, was hospitalized.\u00a0The injuries he suffered in the car crash led the hospital\u2019s staff to place a tracheostomy tube to help with Cody\u2019s breathing.\u00a0A tracheostomy is a surgical procedure in which a doctor creates an opening through the neck to the patient&#8217;s windpipe or trachea.\u00a0The tube is placed through [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":795,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[100,53,68,102,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brain-injury","category-medical-negligence","category-misdiagnosis","category-nursing-negligence","category-wrongful-death"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>$15.26 Million Jury Verdict for Brain Damaged Patient Caused by Negligent Removal of Tracheostomy Tube  &#8212; 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