{"id":1450,"date":"2014-04-21T10:00:20","date_gmt":"2014-04-21T16:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chicagomedicalmalpracticeattorney-blog.com\/?p=1450"},"modified":"2014-04-21T15:46:38","modified_gmt":"2014-04-21T21:46:38","slug":"jury-sides-doctors-failure-diagnose-treat-aneurysm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/medical-malpractice-lawyer\/jury-sides-doctors-failure-diagnose-treat-aneurysm\/","title":{"rendered":"Jury Sides With Doctors in Failure to Diagnose and Treat Aneurysm"},"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\">Michael Mals, 57, underwent a hip replacement at Lutheran General Hospital on Aug. 14, 2008.<span>\u00a0 <\/span>He was given <a href=\"http:\/\/www.drugs.com\/coumadin.html\">Coumadin<\/a>, a blood thinner, to prevent <a href=\"http:\/\/www.veinclinics.com\/my-condition\/deep-vein-thrombosis\/?utm_source=bing&amp;utm_medium=cpc&amp;utm_term=what%20is%20deep%20vein%20thrombosis&amp;utm_content=3697820292&amp;utm_campaign=My+Condition&amp;mkwid=JHnV1cnD|pcrid|3697820292|pkw|what%20is%20deep%20vein%20thrombosis|pmt|bb|pdv|c&amp;mm_campaign=e98e6723b4cf21117ff9fbdeb131f031&amp;keyword=what%20is%20deep%20vein%20thrombosis\">deep vein thrombosis (<\/a>DVT).<span>\u00a0 <\/span>Three days later he was transferred to a nursing home for rehab where his INR (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.medterms.com\/script\/main\/art.asp?articlekey=9184\">international normalized ratio<\/a>) became supratherateutic and Coumadin was discontinued.<span>\u00a0 <\/span>In other words, his blood became too thin for his well-being.<span>\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Mals was readmitted to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.advocatehealth.com\/luth\/\">Lutheran General Hospital<\/a> on Aug. 28, 2008 with an elevated INR level, suspected internal bleeding and an elevated white blood count.<span> He <\/span>was diagnosed with a bleed within the left iliacus muscle and bilateral DVTs.<span>\u00a0 <\/span>He was restarted on Coumadin, and he returned to the nursing home on Sept. 2.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">On Sept. 11, 2008, Mals was readmitted to Lutheran General with elevated INR and anemia, placed on Lovenox anticoagulant therapy and sent back to the rehab facility.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/medical-malpractice-lawyer\/jury-sides-doctors-failure-diagnose-treat-aneurysm\/#more-1450\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Mals, 57, underwent a hip replacement at Lutheran General Hospital on Aug. 14, 2008.\u00a0 He was given Coumadin, a blood thinner, to prevent deep vein thrombosis (DVT).\u00a0 Three days later he was transferred to a nursing home for rehab where his INR (international normalized ratio) became supratherateutic and Coumadin was discontinued.\u00a0 In other words, [&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":[27,21,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-medical-malpractice","category-misdiagnosis","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>Jury Sides With Doctors in Failure to Diagnose and Treat Aneurysm  &#8212; 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