Medical News Summary: Man seeks $1.5 million damages over wife and unborn child’s death

About: Man seeks $1.5 million damages over wife and unborn child’s death
Date: 24 January 2005
Source: Summit Daily News
Author: Jane Stebbins
Medical News Summary (summary of medical news story as reported by Summit Daily News): A 39 woman developed symptoms such as diarrhea, vomiting and fever when she was 36 ½ weeks pregnant. The doctor who examined her told her she had the flu and gave her some medication to treat her nausea. The women again went to the doctor when her symptoms did not abate. She was admitted to hospital where the nurse gave her Tylenol which failed to bring her temperature down. She was eventually stabilized. A couple of hours later the baby died and the mother died not long after from a cardiac arrest. It was alleged that the mother had a bacterial infection of the uterus. This infection combined with medication to prevent contractions allegedly triggered the heart attack. The medical negligence case is in court. The defendants claim that the woman had a heart condition which is usually not diagnosed until death. The plaintiffs claim that antibiotics could have saved her life. They claim that the infection combined with the heart abnormality lead to her death. The husband is seeking $1.5 million in damages.
URL: http://www.summitdaily.com/article/20050124/NEWS/101240017
Related Disease Topics: Pregnancy, Bacterial infection of the uterus, Heart attack, Heart abnormality, Heart disorder, Cardiac arrest, Flu
Related Symptom Topics: Diarrhea, vomiting, fever, nausea

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Related Medical News Channels: This medical news summary article refers to the following medical channel categories:

• Infection
• Bacterial infection
• Death from bacterial infection of the uterus
• death from bacterial infection
• Death from infection
• Death from heart abnormality
• death from heart attack
• Death from heart disorder
• death from cardiac arrest
• Medical negligence and pregnancy
• Medical negligence and bacterial infection of the uterus
• Medical negligence and heart attack
• Medical negligence and heart abnormality
• Medical negligence and heart disorder
• Medical negligence and cardiac arrest
• Medical negligence and diarrhea
• Medical negligence and vomiting
• Medical negligence and fever
• Medical negligence and nausea
• medical malpractice and pregnancy
• Medical malpractice and bacterial infection of the uterus
• medical malpractice and heart attack
• Medical malpractice and heart abnormality
• Medical malpractice and heart disorder
• medical malpractice and cardiac arrest
• medical malpractice and diarrhea
• Medical malpractice and vomiting
• medical malpractice and fever
• Medical malpractice and nausea
• Misdiagnosed and bacterial infection of the uterus
• misdiagnosed and heart attack
• Misdiagnosed and heart abnormality
• Misdiagnosed and heart disorder
• misdiagnosed and cardiac arrest
• misdiagnosed and diarrhea
• Misdiagnosed and vomiting
• misdiagnosed and fever
• Misdiagnosed and nausea
• Undiagnosed and bacterial infection of the uterus
• Undiagnosed and heart abnormality
• Undiagnosed and heart disorder
• Undiagnosed and diarrhea
• Undiagnosed and vomiting
• Undiagnosed and fever
• Undiagnosed and nausea
• Misdiagnosis (type of Medical misadventure)
• Undiagnosed
• misdiagnosis and flu
• medical malpractice and flu
• cause of cardiac arrest
• Medication
• medication and cardiac arrest
• medication and pregnancy
• medication and flu
• Medication and infection of the uterus

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