{"id":459,"date":"2012-04-17T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-04-17T18:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chicagomedicalmalpracticeattorney-blog.lawblogger.net\/2012\/04\/17\/jury_finds_for_doctor_in_death_case_from_fentanyl_estate_of_shannon_v_dr_sanders\/"},"modified":"2016-08-30T16:02:16","modified_gmt":"2016-08-30T21:02:16","slug":"jury_finds_for_doctor_in_death_case_from_fentanyl_estate_of_shannon_v_dr_sanders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/medical-malpractice-lawyer\/jury_finds_for_doctor_in_death_case_from_fentanyl_estate_of_shannon_v_dr_sanders\/","title":{"rendered":"Jury Finds for Doctor in Fentanyl Death Case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Doctors are relying more and more on narcotic medications to treat patients&#8217; increased complaints of chronic pain.  However, while this might mean that more patients&#8217; pain is being treated in the short-term, it has some potentially harmful long-term consequences.  The longer patients remain on opiate medications, the less effective they are at treating pain, which sometimes results in the dosage increasing to potentially dangerous levels.<\/p>\n<p>A recent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/medical-malpractice-lawyer\/\">medical malpractice lawsuit<\/a>,<em> Estate of Mary Shannon v. Dr. Timothy Sanders, et al.<\/em> involved claims that the defendant physician&#8217;s negligence in prescribing a pain patch caused a patient&#8217;s death.  The Grundy County lawsuit alleged that Dr. Timothy Sanders, an anesthesiologist, contributed to the decedent&#8217;s death by extending the use of her Fentanyl patch.  The anesthesiologist had used the Fentanyl patch to treat the patient&#8217;s pain following a short, one-hour surgery to treat her broken hip.  However, within nine hours of the surgery the patient died.<\/p>\n<p>While the patient&#8217;s death was ultimately attributed to her <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nhlbi.nih.gov\/health\/health-topics\/topics\/copd\/\">Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD)<\/a>, an autopsy report revealed that Fentanyl intoxication significantly contributed to her death.  The 71 year-old decedent had been on a Fentanyl Duragic Patch for several years prior to her death as a means of treating chronic pain caused by compression fractures in her back.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nlm.nih.gov\/medlineplus\/druginfo\/meds\/a601202.html\">Fentanyl<\/a> is an opiate drug and is often not prescribed for patients with COPD because of its potential to cause respiratory problems.<\/p>\n<p>The decedent&#8217;s family brought a lawsuit against the defendant anesthesiologist in which it was alleged that he should not have continued the order of the Fentanyl patch for as long as he did.  Instead, the family contended it should have been removed following the surgery, arguing that its continued use was contraindicated.  Furthermore, the decedent&#8217;s family was critical of the anesthesiologist prescribing the Fentanyl patch in conjunction with her warming blanket on the basis that the patch should not have been exposed to a heat source.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/medical-malpractice-lawyer\/jury_finds_for_doctor_in_death_case_from_fentanyl_estate_of_shannon_v_dr_sanders\/#more-459\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Doctors are relying more and more on narcotic medications to treat patients&#8217; increased complaints of chronic pain. However, while this might mean that more patients&#8217; pain is being treated in the short-term, it has some potentially harmful long-term consequences. 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