Overview

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.

System Wellstar Health System
Fact pattern Post-spine-surgery chyle leak with liters of whitish fluid draining through a suprapubic catheter without investigation or treatment
Alleged harm Sepsis, multi-organ damage, and death

Chronology

  1. Samuel Park underwent spine surgery and then received post-operative care at Wellstar's Atlanta Medical Center.
  2. After surgery, a major chyle leak allegedly caused whitish fluid to drain from a suprapubic catheter intended to drain urine.
  3. The medical staff allegedly did nothing to investigate or offer treatment even as liter after liter drained out over 11 days.
  4. More than 50 liters of whitish fluid drained from the catheter, and the leak caused sepsis and multi-organ damage that eventually caused Samuel’s death.

Alleged failures

Medical staff allegedly failed to investigate a major chyle leak after spine surgery.

Hospital providers allegedly failed to offer treatment while whitish fluid drained from a suprapubic catheter over an extended period.

The prolonged failure to identify and address the leak allegedly allowed sepsis and multi-organ damage to cause death.

Entities

Wellstar Health SystemWellstar Atlanta Medical CenterSpine surgerySuprapubic catheterChyle leakMedical staff
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