{"id":2748,"date":"2020-04-14T18:36:22","date_gmt":"2020-04-14T22:36:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.defranciscolaw.com\/blog\/?p=2748"},"modified":"2020-04-14T18:36:22","modified_gmt":"2020-04-14T22:36:22","slug":"new-york-court-affirms-summary-judgment-to-doctors-in-medical-malpractice-case-arising-from-patients-death-due-to-pulmonary-embolism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.defranciscolaw.com\/blog\/new-york-court-affirms-summary-judgment-to-doctors-in-medical-malpractice-case-arising-from-patients-death-due-to-pulmonary-embolism\/","title":{"rendered":"New York Court Affirms Summary Judgment to Doctors in Medical Malpractice Case Arising from Patient&#8217;s Death Due to Pulmonary Embolism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A doctor or healthcare provider&#8217;s failure to diagnose and\/or properly treat a pulmonary embolism can result in a Syracuse surgical malpractice claim. Potentially life-threatening, a pulmonary embolism occurs when a blood clot (usually from another part of the body) blocks one of the pulmonary arteries in the lungs.<\/p>\n<p>A pulmonary embolism can result in shortness of breath, chest pain, and cough; less common symptoms include irregular heartbeat, dizziness, sweating, swelling, and fever. If not promptly diagnosed or properly treated, a pulmonary embolism can cause serious injury or even death in some patients. Because surgery is one of the main causes of blood clots that result in pulmonary embolism, it is especially important that surgeons take measures to prevent, recognize, and\/or treat such conditions in their patients.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Facts of the Case<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The plaintiff in a recently decided <a href=\"https:\/\/law.justia.com\/cases\/new-york\/appellate-division-first-department\/2020\/805346-14-11373a-11373.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">case<\/a> arising in the Supreme Court of New York County was the administratrix of a 49-year-old woman who died from a pulmonary embolism that was allegedly caused by bilateral deep vein thromboses in her legs. According to the plaintiff&#8217;s complaint against the defendants (a family medicine physician, a cardiologist, and others), the decedent&#8217;s condition developed after she underwent a two-day back surgery. Both the family medicine physician and the cardiologist consulted on the decedent&#8217;s care. They also allegedly reviewed certain electrocardiograms that showed T wave inversions. In the plaintiff&#8217;s view, the defendants deviated from good and accepted standards of medicine by failing to order additional testing in order to determine the cause of the decedent&#8217;s T wave inversion.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defranciscolaw.com\/blog\/new-york-court-affirms-summary-judgment-to-doctors-in-medical-malpractice-case-arising-from-patients-death-due-to-pulmonary-embolism\/#more-2748\" class=\"more-link\">Continue Reading \u203a<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A doctor or healthcare provider&#8217;s failure to diagnose and\/or properly treat a pulmonary embolism can result in a Syracuse surgical malpractice claim. Potentially life-threatening, a pulmonary embolism occurs when a blood clot (usually from another part of the body) blocks one of the pulmonary arteries in the lungs. A pulmonary embolism can result in shortness [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,6,69],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-failure-to-diagnose","category-medical-malpractice","category-surgery-errors"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>New York Court Affirms Summary Judgment to Doctors in Medical Malpractice Case Arising from Patient&#039;s Death Due to Pulmonary Embolism &#8212; Syracuse Personal Injury Law Blog &#8212; April 14, 2020<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"A doctor or healthcare provider&#039;s failure to diagnose and\/or properly treat a pulmonary embolism can result in a Syracuse surgical malpractice claim. &#8212; 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