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- Title
Infection, misdiagnosis lead to hysterectomy.
- Authors
KAPLAN, ANDREW I.
- Abstract
The article presents a case study of a 21-year-old female who filed a legal action against a medical facility for failure to diagnose and manage an intra-abdominal abscess amid an elective cesarean delivery. She received treatment for C difficile infection, but was considered to have an abscess formation upon a computed tomography scan done in a different hospital. She underwent hysterectomy and salpingectomy, and received 2 million dollars in compensation.
- Subjects
UNITED States; CLOSTRIDIUM diseases; MALPRACTICE; DIAGNOSTIC error laws; ULTRASONIC imaging of the abdomen; MEDICAL care standards; ABDOMINAL abscess; ABDOMINAL pain; ANTIBIOTICS; CESAREAN section; HEMATOCRIT; HEMOGLOBINS; HYSTERECTOMY; MEDICAL protocols; PATIENTS; PREANESTHETIC medication; PREGNANCY complications; LEUKOCYTE count; INTRA-abdominal infections; SALPINGECTOMY; DISEASE complications; DIAGNOSIS
- Publication
Contemporary OB/GYN, 2015, Vol 60, Issue 11, p46
- ISSN
0090-3159
- Publication type
Case Study