{"id":1240,"date":"2013-11-08T10:00:09","date_gmt":"2013-11-08T16:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chicagomedicalmalpracticeattorney-blog.com\/?p=1240"},"modified":"2013-11-07T07:18:23","modified_gmt":"2013-11-07T13:18:23","slug":"600000-medical-malpractice-jury-verdict-leg-amputation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/medical-malpractice-lawyer\/600000-medical-malpractice-jury-verdict-leg-amputation\/","title":{"rendered":"$600,000 Medical Malpractice Jury Verdict for Leg Amputation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--[if gte mso 9]&gt;--><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Nereida Sepulveda was an 80-year-old retiree who underwent a bilateral knee replacement surgery at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.advocatehealth.com\/immc\/\">Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center <\/a>on Nov. 9, 2009.<span>\u00a0<\/span>The surgery was performed by an orthopedic surgeon, Dr. David Hoffman.\u00a0Sepulveda suffered an artery occlusion in the right leg as a complication of the procedure.<span>\u00a0<\/span>The defendant, Dr. Iyer, was called for a vascular consult later that afternoon.<span>\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Because Sepulveda complained of chest pain, the hospitalist would not permit any additional surgery on the right leg until he had ruled out a heart attack.<span>\u00a0<\/span>Dr. Iyer then had to wait to obtain surgical clearance.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">The next afternoon, Nov. 10, 2009, Dr. Iyer received medical clearance to do the surgery but decided to postpone the vascular surgery until Nov. 13\u00a0because the patient\u2019s condition had improved.The surgery was elective and Sepulveda had just eaten.<span>\u00a0 <\/span>However, it was noted that on Nov. 11, 2009, Sepulveda\u2019s condition had worsened, and she suffered a foot drop.<span>\u00a0<\/span>Dr. Iyer performed an 8-hour <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Revascularization\">revascularization<\/a> procedure to repair the right <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pmc\/articles\/PMC1879205\/\">popliteal artery <\/a>that day.<span>\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/medical-malpractice-lawyer\/600000-medical-malpractice-jury-verdict-leg-amputation\/#more-1240\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nereida Sepulveda was an 80-year-old retiree who underwent a bilateral knee replacement surgery at Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center on Nov. 9, 2009.\u00a0The surgery was performed by an orthopedic surgeon, Dr. David Hoffman.\u00a0Sepulveda suffered an artery occlusion in the right leg as a complication of the procedure.\u00a0The defendant, Dr. Iyer, was called for a vascular [&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":[25,27,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hospital-errors","category-medical-malpractice","category-surgical-errors"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>$600,000 Medical Malpractice Jury Verdict for Leg Amputation &#8212; 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