Overview

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.

System Piedmont Healthcare
Fact pattern ICU clot after thrombectomy followed by delay in examination, investigation, and treatment until above-knee amputation became necessary
Alleged harm Above-knee leg amputation

Chronology

  1. After undergoing a thrombectomy, Marcus Hill suffered a blood clot that cut off the blood supply to his leg.
  2. Marcus was still in the hospital, in an intensive care unit, and the clot allegedly was easily identifiable and treatable.
  3. Even after signs of the clot became obvious, several providers allegedly failed to promptly examine, investigate, and treat the problem.
  4. The resulting delays allegedly caused Marcus’s leg to be amputated above the knee, with the complaint also attributing harm to inadequate supervision of resident physicians and ineffective patient-safety systems.

Alleged failures

Several providers allegedly failed to promptly examine, investigate, and treat an obvious and treatable clot after thrombectomy.

The delay allegedly allowed loss of blood supply to progress until above-knee amputation became necessary.

The corporate defendants allegedly failed to implement adequate policies, procedures, and practices to supervise resident physicians and maintain effective patient-safety systems.

Entities

Piedmont Healthcare, Inc.ThrombectomyIntensive care unitResident physiciansPatient safety systemsAbove-knee amputation
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