Georgia malpractice type allegations
Sepsis and infection-delay malpractice allegations often concern whether providers recognized serious infection, started antibiotics, controlled the infection source, escalated care, or transferred a worsening patient in time.
The examples below focus on public Georgia complaint allegations where sepsis, infection diagnosis, antibiotic delay, source-control delay, meningitis or sepsis recognition, or post-operative infection treatment delay is central. Some pressure-wound cases may belong elsewhere unless the alleged sepsis recognition or transfer delay is a distinct focus.
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This page concerns a public complaint alleging that Georgia Surgicare, IBI Healthcare, and Christopher Ibikunle, M.D. performed a gastric bypass with Roux-en-Y anastomosis during a scheduled hernia repair and sleeve revision even though the plaintiff allegedly had not consented to conversion to gastric bypass.
This page concerns a St. Francis surgical case in which an initial rectal lesion had been completely excised with clear margins, but a later major colon surgery allegedly was unnecessary and was followed by an anastomotic leak, fecal peritonitis, delayed source control, lack of immediate postoperative antibiotics, and fatal s...
This page concerns care at Wellstar’s Atlanta Medical Center after spine surgery, where a major chyle leak allegedly went uninvestigated and untreated while whitish fluid drained through a suprapubic catheter for 11 days before sepsis and multi-organ damage caused death.
This page concerns a cholecystectomy at Wellstar that allegedly was unnecessary and performed without informed consent, followed by bile-leak and sepsis complications that multiple providers did not timely investigate or treat, along with asserted communication and coordination failures at the system level.
This page concerns a high-risk patient housed at Doctors Hospital of Augusta while awaiting nursing-home placement, where pressure wounds allegedly were repeatedly noted but not adequately treated or prevented from worsening until a deep infected wound developed and became chronic and debilitating.
This page concerns a public complaint alleging that providers at Grady Memorial Hospital and Emory University Hospital Midtown failed to prevent and properly treat a severe sacral pressure injury in a post-surgical patient.
This page concerns a public complaint alleging that emergency providers at Emory Decatur Hospital failed to diagnose and treat bacterial meningitis and sepsis before discharging a patient who later suffered a stroke.
This page concerns a public amended complaint alleging that Fulton Center for Rehabilitation and related providers failed to prevent, identify, and treat pressure ulcers before the resident developed fatal sepsis.
This page concerns a public second amended complaint alleging that an urgent-care nurse practitioner and his supervising physician diagnosed uncomplicated hemorrhoids without a rectal examination before the patient was diagnosed with Fournier’s gangrene.
This page concerns a public complaint alleging that Wellstar-affiliated hospitals did not recognize or act on a bariatric-surgery patient’s bowel obstruction and leak for days. It alleges that transfers between hospitals then delayed her emergency surgery.
This page concerns a public complaint alleging that a nursing home did not prevent, assess, or properly treat a resident’s pressure ulcers before her death.
This page concerns a public complaint alleging that a home health agency delayed treating a patient’s urinary tract infection before her death.
This page concerns a public complaint alleging that a nursing home let a resident’s pressure wound reach the point of suspected bone infection.
This page concerns a public complaint alleging that a skilled nursing facility did not prevent or treat a resident’s pressure wounds before her death.
This page concerns a public complaint alleging that emergency and intensive-care providers did not recognize or treat post-surgical sepsis before a patient’s death.
This page concerns a public complaint alleging that an infant flagged as septic received no antibiotics before an unstable transfer between hospitals.
This page concerns a public complaint alleging that an emergency-department physician and hospital staff did not properly work up a worsening bacterial infection. It alleges they discharged a feverish, tachycardic teenager who died hours later.
This page concerns a public complaint alleging that a hospital’s hematology-oncology team did not disclose a severe neutropenia diagnosis before a patient died of sepsis.
This page concerns a public complaint alleging that hospital physicians did not obtain timely surgical consultation for worsening abdominal infection before a patient’s death.
This page concerns a public complaint alleging that a surgeon did not notice a colon perforation from a gallbladder operation. It alleges a hospital nurse then delayed the patient’s return to care before he died of peritonitis.
This page concerns a public complaint alleging that jail medical staff did not repeat abnormal lab tests before a detainee’s death in custody.
This page concerns a public complaint alleging that a urologist missed signs of infection on a postoperative CT scan. The patient died days later.
This page concerns a public complaint alleging that a Northside Hospital physician did not timely treat a worsening ileus and infection over several days. The patient died of septic shock.
This page concerns a public complaint alleging that a children’s hospital did not timely treat pressure wounds caused by EEG monitoring electrodes. It alleges staff then misdiagnosed the resulting infections in a severely disabled child.
This page concerns a public complaint alleging that urgent-care and family-medicine physicians repeatedly misdiagnosed a diabetic patient’s foot infection as gout.
This page concerns a public complaint alleging that a primary care physician did not investigate a patient’s fever and other symptoms. The delay preceded sepsis and a hypoxic brain injury.
