Overview

This page concerns a fatal stroke case at Hamilton Medical Center in which two radiology studies and the patient’s clinical presentation allegedly showed a catastrophic stroke, yet the studies were repeatedly read as normal and the stroke was not treated as a neurological emergency.

System Hamilton Medical Center
Fact pattern Brainstem stroke allegedly misread on two radiology studies and not treated as a neurological emergency
Alleged harm Wrongful death

Chronology

  1. Twenty-six-year-old Olivia Drake went to the ER at Hamilton Medical Center with signs and symptoms of a stroke.
  2. Two radiology studies and her clinical presentation allegedly indicated that she was having a catastrophic stroke.
  3. The studies were repeatedly misread as normal, and the stroke was not diagnosed or treated as a neurological emergency.
  4. Olivia was not treated with a thrombectomy or otherwise, and she died.

Alleged failures

Defendants allegedly repeatedly misread two radiology studies that indicated a catastrophic stroke.

Defendants allegedly failed to diagnose the stroke despite the imaging and clinical presentation.

Defendants allegedly failed to treat the stroke with thrombectomy or any other timely stroke intervention.

Entities

Hamilton Medical CenterRadiologyEmergency departmentThrombectomyBrainstem stroke
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