{"id":1267,"date":"2013-12-06T10:00:57","date_gmt":"2013-12-06T16:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chicagomedicalmalpracticeattorney-blog.com\/?p=1267"},"modified":"2013-12-04T09:07:09","modified_gmt":"2013-12-04T15:07:09","slug":"cook-county-jury-verdict-hospital-paraplegic-spinal-surgery-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/medical-malpractice-lawyer\/cook-county-jury-verdict-hospital-paraplegic-spinal-surgery-case\/","title":{"rendered":"Cook County Jury Verdict for Hospital in Paraplegic Spinal Surgery Case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--[if gte mso 9]&gt;--><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">A Cook County jury has decided that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nmh.org\/nm\/home\">Northwestern Memorial Hospital <\/a>was not negligent after a back surgery on 83-year-old JoAnn Smith went wrong.<span>\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">On Aug. 5, 2010, Smith underwent an L4-5 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.orthopedicandlaserspinesurgery.com\/treatments\/endoscopicForaminotomy?utm_source=google&amp;utm_medium=ppc&amp;utm_campaign=endoscopic-foraminotomy&amp;utm_term=microendoscopic%20foraminotomy&amp;gclid=CKzs1bDplrsCFQISMwodF1kAcg\">microendoscopic foraminotomy<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.webmd.com\/back-pain\/discectomy-or-microdiscectomy-for-a-herniated-disc\">discectomy <\/a>at Northwestern Memorial Hospital for management of her back pain.<span>\u00a0<\/span>After the surgery, she was diagnosed with multiple deep vein thromboses, pulmonary embolism and a blood clot in her right internal jugular vein.<span>\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Heparin\">Heparin<\/a> was given to help with the clotting issue.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">On Aug. 8, 2010, Smith developed abnormal neurological signs and symptoms.<span>\u00a0<\/span>An MRI revealed internal bleeding and cord compression in the cervical, thoracic and lumbar spine.<span>\u00a0<\/span>An emergency decompression surgery was done.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/medical-malpractice-lawyer\/cook-county-jury-verdict-hospital-paraplegic-spinal-surgery-case\/#more-1267\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Cook County jury has decided that Northwestern Memorial Hospital was not negligent after a back surgery on 83-year-old JoAnn Smith went wrong.\u00a0 On Aug. 5, 2010, Smith underwent an L4-5 microendoscopic foraminotomy and discectomy at Northwestern Memorial Hospital for management of her back pain.\u00a0After the surgery, she was diagnosed with multiple deep vein thromboses, [&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":[27,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-medical-malpractice","category-misdiagnosis"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Cook County Jury Verdict for Hospital in Paraplegic Spinal Surgery Case &#8212; 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