{"id":997,"date":"2013-07-18T10:00:43","date_gmt":"2013-07-18T16:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chicagomedicalmalpracticeattorney-blog.com\/?p=997"},"modified":"2019-11-07T05:34:19","modified_gmt":"2019-11-07T11:34:19","slug":"illinois-jury-verdict-for-doctors-in-bowel-perforation-sepsis-death-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/medical-malpractice-lawyer\/illinois-jury-verdict-for-doctors-in-bowel-perforation-sepsis-death-case\/","title":{"rendered":"Illinois Jury Verdict for Doctors in Bowel Perforation, Sepsis, Death Case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--[if gte mso 9]&gt;--><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">In November 2006, the defendant surgeon, Dr. Hodgett, performed a laparoscopic biopsy on a 72-year-old woman, Mary Backes.<span>\u00a0 <\/span>The purpose was to diagnose a suspected lymphoma in her retroperitoneal area, which is behind the abdomen.<span>\u00a0<\/span>The biopsy was done at Provena Nursing Medical Center in Aurora, Ill.<span>\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Another defendant, Dr. Sayeed, was the patient\u2019s primary care physician.<span>\u00a0<\/span>Following the biopsy, Backes experienced blood pressure drops, low urine output and rapid respiration.<span>\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Her family maintained in the lawsuit that Dr. Hodges and Dr. Sayeed chose not to recognize that Backes&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Duodenum\">duodenum<\/a> had been perforated during the biopsy procedure and failed to realize that her post-op symptoms were indicative of developing sepsis.\u00a0It was also claimed that the doctors chose not to timely return Backes to surgery for exploration and repair of the perforation to attempt to save her life.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/medical-malpractice-lawyer\/illinois-jury-verdict-for-doctors-in-bowel-perforation-sepsis-death-case\/#more-997\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In November 2006, the defendant surgeon, Dr. Hodgett, performed a laparoscopic biopsy on a 72-year-old woman, Mary Backes.\u00a0 The purpose was to diagnose a suspected lymphoma in her retroperitoneal area, which is behind the abdomen.\u00a0The biopsy was done at Provena Nursing Medical Center in Aurora, Ill.\u00a0 Another defendant, Dr. Sayeed, was the patient\u2019s primary care [&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":[27,21,4,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-medical-malpractice","category-misdiagnosis","category-surgical-errors","category-wrongful-death"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Illinois Jury Verdict for Doctors in Bowel Perforation, Sepsis, Death Case &#8212; 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