{"id":1202,"date":"2013-12-09T10:00:58","date_gmt":"2013-12-09T16:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chicagomedicalmalpracticeattorney-blog.com\/?p=1202"},"modified":"2013-12-08T11:21:50","modified_gmt":"2013-12-08T17:21:50","slug":"1-6-million-jury-verdict-fatal-brain-trauma-hospital-room","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/medical-malpractice-lawyer\/1-6-million-jury-verdict-fatal-brain-trauma-hospital-room\/","title":{"rendered":"$1.6 Million Jury Verdict for Fatal Brain Trauma in Hospital Room"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--[if gte mso 9]&gt;--><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">South Korean immigrant Young Bahng, 60, was admitted to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uchospitals.edu\/index.shtml\">University of Chicago Hospital<\/a> on April 18, 2006.<span>\u00a0<\/span>He was there to undergo a live-donor liver transplant from his son.<span>\u00a0<\/span>Bahng was self-employed in the conveyor system business.<span>\u00a0<\/span>He was suffering from end stage liver disease as a result of having <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mayoclinic.com\/health\/hepatitis-b\/DS00398\">hepatitis B<\/a> since 1990.<span>\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">On April 19, 2006 in the early morning hours, Bahng fell in his hospital room while attempting to walk to the urinal.<span>\u00a0<\/span>He struck his head in the fall and sustained a massive subdural hematoma and intracranial bleed, which required immediate surgery.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">By the time the surgery was under way, Bahng had sustained profound brain damage and was placed on life support immediately following a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.urmc.rochester.edu\/neurosurgery\/for-patients\/treatments\/craniectomy.aspx\">craniectomy<\/a>.<span>\u00a0<\/span>He died as a result of his brain trauma on April 25, 2006 and\u00a0was survived by his wife and children.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/medical-malpractice-lawyer\/1-6-million-jury-verdict-fatal-brain-trauma-hospital-room\/#more-1202\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Korean immigrant Young Bahng, 60, was admitted to the University of Chicago Hospital on April 18, 2006.\u00a0He was there to undergo a live-donor liver transplant from his son.\u00a0Bahng was self-employed in the conveyor system business.\u00a0He was suffering from end stage liver disease as a result of having hepatitis B since 1990.\u00a0 On April 19, [&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":[25,27,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hospital-errors","category-medical-malpractice","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>$1.6 Million Jury Verdict for Fatal Brain Trauma in Hospital Room  &#8212; 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