{"id":4380,"date":"2019-06-05T10:00:48","date_gmt":"2019-06-05T15:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/medical-malpractice-lawyer\/?p=4380"},"modified":"2019-06-02T06:26:03","modified_gmt":"2019-06-02T11:26:03","slug":"state-appellate-court-finds-expert-report-sufficient-in-medical-negligence-wrongful-death-of-a-child-from-bacterial-infection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/medical-malpractice-lawyer\/state-appellate-court-finds-expert-report-sufficient-in-medical-negligence-wrongful-death-of-a-child-from-bacterial-infection\/","title":{"rendered":"State Appellate Court Finds Expert Report Sufficient in Medical Negligence, Wrongful Death of a Child from Bacterial Infection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Texas state appellate court has held that a plaintiff expert\u2019s report was adequate in a case brought by the parents whose child died after receiving inadequate treatment for a respiratory infection. Luz Del Carmen Rodriguez and Victor Velazquez took their infant son to the office of a pediatrician, Dr. Satbir Chhina. <\/p>\n<p>A nurse practitioner diagnosed the baby as having <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/rsv\/index.html\">respiratory syncytial virus<\/a> and prescribed Tylenol and nebulizer treatments. Dr. Chhina later signed off on the treatment plan that was presented to him by the nurse practitioner. However, the next day, the baby became unresponsive. He was transferred to a hospital, where he died of cardio-pulmonary arrest. An autopsy revealed that the child\u2019s death resulted from sepsis originating from a bacterial infection. <\/p>\n<p>Rodriguez and Velazquez sued Dr. Chhina and the nurse practitioner, alleging medical negligence. The plaintiffs offered the expert report of Dr. Armando Correa, a board-certified pediatrician who specialized in pediatric infectious disease.<br \/>\n <a href=\"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/medical-malpractice-lawyer\/state-appellate-court-finds-expert-report-sufficient-in-medical-negligence-wrongful-death-of-a-child-from-bacterial-infection\/#more-4380\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Texas state appellate court has held that a plaintiff expert\u2019s report was adequate in a case brought by the parents whose child died after receiving inadequate treatment for a respiratory infection. Luz Del Carmen Rodriguez and Victor Velazquez took their infant son to the office of a pediatrician, Dr. Satbir Chhina. A nurse practitioner [&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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[24,51,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-experts","category-infectious-disease","category-misdiagnosis-of-infection"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>State Appellate Court Finds Expert Report Sufficient in Medical Negligence, Wrongful Death of a Child from Bacterial Infection &#8212; Chicago Medical Malpractice Attorney Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"A Texas state appellate court has held that a plaintiff expert\u2019s report was adequate in a case brought by the parents whose child died after receiving\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/medical-malpractice-lawyer\/state-appellate-court-finds-expert-report-sufficient-in-medical-negligence-wrongful-death-of-a-child-from-bacterial-infection\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"State Appellate Court Finds Expert Report Sufficient in Medical Negligence, Wrongful Death of a Child from Bacterial Infection &#8212; 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