Nash & Associates: Case Under Investigation
Paralysis – epidural administration during and after childbirth:
Case Facts: This case involves yet another very tragic outcome for a wonderful young woman and her husband following the birth of their child. Our client entered the hospital with her husband joyfully awaiting the birth of their first child. To assist her through the labor process, an epidural was administered. A determination was made to proceed to C-section; the anesthesia utilized was her epidural. Following the birth of her child, she was taken to the recovery room, where analgesia (pain relief and control) was being administered via her epidural.
She entered the hospital with full use of her legs. She left the hospital in an ambulance being transported to another medical facility paralyzed from the waist down. Her husband headed home with his newborn son but without his wife at his side.
We have been attempting to investigate this case for several months. Despite repeated requests for the complete medical record relating to this birth and the after-care, the hospital has, for whatever reason (which we will determine in the not too distant future) failed to provide the complete record –especially with respect to our client’s being monitored and treated in the recovery room. What we do know at this point is that it was not until more than twenty-six hours later that the first medical entry (of the records we currently have) was made that the patient, our client, had no sensation or movement in her legs. Our clients have unequivocally made known to us that there was never any feeling or movement in this mother’s legs throughout this entire time.
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Again, the above ‘cases under investigation’ are just that – under investigation. At Nash & Associates, we recognize that bad results can occur even when the medical care is totally proper. We believe it is our ethical duty to our clients to totally and properly investigate these matters to identify those cases in which tragic outcomes are the result of negligence. While we attempt to initially screen incoming matters to determine which may have merit, the final determination to proceed to a lawsuit is not made unless and until we are satisfied, through proper investigation and qualified expert consultation. that a valid malpractice case exists. Of course, the ultimate determination of the validity of a case lies with the jurors who must unanimously agree that our assessment was correct.
We provide the above information to give you, the visitors to our sight, information as to a sampling of the nature of our practice and insight into the expertise we possess in this area of the law. We do not simply market, collect cases and refer them to other lawyers, who specialize in this area of the law. We are the ones who handle these matters with our many years of highly successful experience in the evaluation, settlement and, when necessary, litigation of medical malpractice and catastrophic injury cases.
