Nurses left an 18-by-18 inch sponge inside of her during a 2011 operation.
Andrew WolfsonLOUISVILLE, Ky. – A jury has awarded $10.5 million to a woman who had to have her leg amputated after University of Louisville Hospital personnel left a sponge inside her during heart surgery years earlier.
In an email, Bolus said the verdict “restores some sense of dignity” to Boerste and sends a message to hospitals to carefully count the number of sponges, needles and other sharp objects to ensure they are removed after surgery. He said U of L Hospital is already revamping its policy.A Florida hunter captured 3 pythons at the same time in a single bag
The incident occurred just before lunch, and a nurse testified that nurses did not do a “lunch sponge count” required by hospital policy. Nurses viewed the policy as a “mere guideline,” Bolus said in the summary.Four years later, however, the sponge eroded into her intestine, causing gastrointestinal problems. She went by ambulance to Baptist East in Louisville, where emergency room Dr. Mark Nunley ordered a CT scan that revealed a marker for the sponge.
During her recovery at Franciscan Health Care Center, Boerste developed a blister on her heel that she alleged was caused because the facility was short-staffed and didn’t have two aides to lift her with a bed sheet, as required by the standard of care. The defendants’ experts testified that she was doomed to lose her leg because of her worsening diabetes and vascular disease, obesity, former smoking history and overall poor lifestyle choices.
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