Nash & Associates: Case Under Investigation
Prosthetic Knee Replacement – infection and loss of prosthesis
Case Facts: After successfully undergoing knee replacement surgery, our client was discharged to her home to be followed by a visiting nurse service. Our investigation has revealed that the visiting nurse, without a physician’s express order, improperly and prematurely removed the stitches from the client’s surgical wound. Shortly thereafter, the surgical site became infected. She had undergone extensive in-patient, intravenous antibiotic therapy in an effort to save her prosthesis. After many weeks of excruciating pain, anguish and disability, the decision was made to remove her prosthesis, leaving her with no knee. She is currently awaiting her physician’s recommendation as to whether or not she will ever be able to receive another knee prosthesis. At a bare minimum, she will be forced to live for many, many months without any knee.
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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.
