Doe, age 54, went to an emergency room suffering from chest pain and numbness in her left arm. She had elevated troponins consistent with a heart attack and was admitted to telemetry-level care. Due to an alleged lack of available beds, Doe was held in the emergency room.
Later that evening, Doe’s heart monitor began to sound, allegedly indicating that she was experiencing ventricular tachycardia. A nurse found Doe unresponsive twenty minutes later. Despite attempts at resuscitation, Doe suffered catastrophic brain damage. Unfortunately, she died ten days later and was survived by her husband and two adult children.
Doe’s survivors sued the hospital maintaining that it chose not to monitor Doe’s telemetry alarms and respond to her tachycardia for over twenty minutes.
The Doe estate asserted that the defendant hospital violated multiple Joint Commission standards by failing to provide uniform patient care and neglecting to staff its telemetry system.
Before a jury trial, the parties settled for $1.8 million.
The attorneys handling this case for the Doe estate were Nicholas J. Leonard and Benjamin T. Ikuta.
Doe v. Roe Hospital, Confidential Docket. No. (Cal. Super. Ct. San Bernardino County).
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