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$6 Million Pediatric Injury ICU Mismanagement
$6 Million Pediatric Injury ICU Mismanagement
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yeah one of the cases that always stands
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out in my mind is we represented the
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family of a little 12 year old girl who
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had gotten an infection
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which let caused some heart damage and
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then she needed a heart transplant
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and she got that heart transplant at one
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of the major urban hospitals here in
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baltimore
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and interestingly enough the transplant
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itself went well and she came through it
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well
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but then she was put in the pediatric
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icu where she’s now under the care of
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nurses
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and the junior doctors and during the
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next 12
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18 24 hours her vitals were going
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out of whack and i remember specifically
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a marker of heart function cardiac
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central venous pressure was slowly
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rising and going through the roof and
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nobody brought that to the doctor’s
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attention
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then we had a new nurse come on board
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who gave a powerful narcotic
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administration
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on top of that and unfortunately the
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poor child went into cardiac arrest and
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and despite their efforts to revive her
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she became
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brain dead unfortunately and this was a
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family whose healthy
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otherwise healthy 12 year old daughter
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was now brain dead
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bedridden couldn’t talk couldn’t speak
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it was tragic
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and through our work of prosecuting this
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case we learned that these nurses
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were not following the guidelines that
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they had established post-surgery we
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learned that they weren’t communicating
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information to the doctors
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and as a result of that we were able to
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get a six million dollar settlement
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on behalf of this family
Baltimore, MD personal injury lawyer Ruslan Kondratyuk shares the story of a case in which he got a $6 million settlement for his client. He shares one case that stands out most in his memory involves a family whose twelve-year-old daughter developed an infection that led to heart damage, ultimately requiring a heart transplant. She received the transplant at a major hospital in Baltimore, and the surgery itself went smoothly. However, after being transferred to the pediatric intensive care unit, her condition took a tragic turn.
Over the next twenty-four hours, her vital signs began deteriorating. A key indicator of heart function—central venous pressure—steadily increased to dangerous levels, yet no one alerted the attending physician. During this time, a new nurse administered a powerful narcotic without proper consideration of the child’s fragile condition. Soon after, the girl went into cardiac arrest, and despite efforts to revive her, she was left brain-dead.
This was a devastating outcome for a family whose once-healthy twelve-year-old daughter was now bedridden and unresponsive. Through his firm’s investigation, he discovered that the nursing staff had failed to follow established post-surgical protocols and had neglected to communicate critical changes in the patient’s condition to the doctors.
As a result of this negligence, the case concluded with a $6 million settlement on behalf of the grieving family.
