Georgia malpractice type allegations
Surgical and procedural-complication complaints often ask whether a complication was recognized, investigated, communicated, and treated before avoidable injury occurred.
The examples below focus on public complaint allegations where delayed recognition or delayed treatment of a surgical or procedural complication is central. Generic surgery cases are excluded unless the alleged delay concerns a complication after the procedure.
Read the linked case summary for the fuller allegations-only discussion.
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 public complaint alleging that a porta-cath intended for chemotherapy access was placed into the arterial system at Emory Decatur Hospital and remained there until after multiple strokes and later surgical removal.
This page concerns a thyroidectomy case at Piedmont Augusta Hospital in which a known risk of post-operative neck bleeding allegedly was not met with the immediate response required when a hematoma can compress the windpipe and suffocate the patient within minutes.
This page concerns an ICU case at Emory University Hospital in which bleeding signs and worsening neurological deficits after a thrombectomy allegedly were not properly monitored or recognized as a spinal epidural hematoma until the next day, after severe spinal cord compression had developed.
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 routine thyroidectomy followed by a rapidly expanding neck hematoma in the hospital, where an airway-threatening emergency allegedly was not relieved in time even after the on-call ENT surgeon instructed that the neck sutures be cut to release pressure on the windpipe.
This page concerns a clot that allegedly became obvious and remained treatable after a thrombectomy while the patient was in an intensive care unit, but several providers did not promptly examine, investigate, or treat it before the patient’s leg had to be amputated above the knee.
This page concerns a public complaint alleging that bunion surgery and follow-up care at Choice Podiatry Center led to non-union in the patient’s toes and later revision surgeries by another surgeon.
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 spine surgery in which hardware allegedly was incorrectly inserted and left in place, then severe postoperative pain complaints were dismissed for months by multiple surgeons who did not order imaging to determine the cause.
This page concerns cervical epidural steroid injections and nerve block procedures at Ortho Sport & Spine Physicians, where the complaint alleges failures in informed consent, examination, sedation, and response to warning signs that the needle had entered the patient’s spinal cord.
This page concerns a public complaint alleging that elective outpatient anterior cervical discectomy and fusion proceeded at Chatham Orthopaedic ASC despite high-risk comorbidities and a blood pressure reading the complaint characterizes as a hypertensive emergency.
This page concerns a public complaint alleging that Atlanta Bone and Joint Specialists and orthopedic surgeon Maurice M. Jove, M.D. failed to timely diagnose and treat complications after a left total hip replacement.
This page concerns a public complaint alleging that Pain Physicians of Atlanta and Ravi Dammanna, M.D. failed to obtain informed consent and failed to properly perform or image a cervical epidural steroid injection.
This page concerns a public complaint alleging that providers at Emory University Hospital Midtown performed a median sternotomy to evaluate suspected aortic dissection despite inconclusive imaging and a later myocarditis diagnosis.
This page concerns a public complaint alleging that a patient at Piedmont Hospital received a nerve block on the wrong lower extremity before left-foot surgery.
This page concerns a public complaint alleging that a lower-leg bypass operation was unnecessary and that the care that followed led to below-knee and above-knee amputations.
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 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 a facial surgeon cut an artery in a patient’s neck during cosmetic surgery. The surgery took place at a Northside Hospital outpatient center, and the complaint alleges the hospital had credentialed him despite prior malpractice lawsuits.
This page concerns a public complaint alleging that emergency-department providers delayed treating a dislocated hip and fractured it during a reduction attempt.
This page concerns a public complaint alleging that hospital staff and physicians did not treat significant hypotension quickly enough after a teenager’s scoliosis surgery.
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 hemorrhoid-treatment practice misplaced embolization coils. It alleges staff did not recognize the resulting rectal injury from the patient’s repeated post-procedure complaints.
This page concerns a complaint alleging that a urologist injured a patient’s sphincter during a prostatectomy and did not diagnose the resulting bladder neck contracture. Severe urinary retention and kidney failure followed.
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 a hospital physician and a nurse did not investigate a patient’s dropping blood pressure. The delay allegedly kept a retroperitoneal bleed after a spinal procedure from being caught before his death.
This page concerns a public complaint alleging that a urologist missed signs of infection on a postoperative CT scan. The patient died days later.
