{"id":1579,"date":"2014-05-28T10:00:19","date_gmt":"2014-05-28T16:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chicagomedicalmalpracticeattorney-blog.com\/?p=1579"},"modified":"2019-10-17T06:08:15","modified_gmt":"2019-10-17T11:08:15","slug":"unsterile-surgical-instruments-leads-jury-verdict-patient","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/medical-malpractice-lawyer\/unsterile-surgical-instruments-leads-jury-verdict-patient\/","title":{"rendered":"Unsterile Surgical Instruments Leads to Jury Verdict for Patient"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Charles Blevins, 63, underwent outpatient arthroscopic knee surgery. Four days after the surgery, Blevins went to a hospital emergency room complaining of fever and a hot and swollen knee. He was diagnosed as having pseudomonas infection and required hospitalization for one month; during that time he received IV antibiotics.<\/p>\n<p>The infection, however, destroyed Blevins&#8217;s right knee joint, which necessitated a total knee replacement and required revision about a year later.<\/p>\n<p>Blevins filed a lawsuit against the surgical center alleging the use of unsterile surgical instruments. According to Blevins\u2019s lawsuit, at least 3 other patients contracted the same type of infection during the 10-day period surrounding his surgery. The lawsuit did not claim lost income.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/medical-malpractice-lawyer\/unsterile-surgical-instruments-leads-jury-verdict-patient\/#more-1579\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Charles Blevins, 63, underwent outpatient arthroscopic knee surgery. Four days after the surgery, Blevins went to a hospital emergency room complaining of fever and a hot and swollen knee. He was diagnosed as having pseudomonas infection and required hospitalization for one month; during that time he received IV antibiotics. The infection, however, destroyed Blevins&#8217;s right [&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":[15,42,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-emergency-room-errors","category-misdiagnosis-of-infection","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>Unsterile Surgical Instruments Leads to Jury Verdict for Patient &#8212; Chicago Medical Malpractice Attorney Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Charles Blevins, 63, underwent outpatient arthroscopic knee surgery. 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