{"id":515,"date":"2013-07-11T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-07-11T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/defranciscolaw.lawblogger.net\/blog\/syracuse-hospital-nearly-harvested-organs-of-live-patient\/"},"modified":"2017-08-31T18:35:38","modified_gmt":"2017-08-31T22:35:38","slug":"syracuse-hospital-nearly-harvested-organs-of-live-patient","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.defranciscolaw.com\/blog\/syracuse-hospital-nearly-harvested-organs-of-live-patient\/","title":{"rendered":"Syracuse hospital nearly harvested organs of live patient"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n

The Syracuse Post-Standard has just published documents detailing a potentially catastrophic medical mistake<\/a> by St. Joseph’s Hospital Health Center in October 2009. They were about to harvest the organs of a patient they believed to be dead when she opened her eyes.<\/p>\n

Doctors determined that a woman who had overdosed on Xanax and over-the-counter drugs had suffered cardiac death and irreversible brain damage. Her family agreed to take her off life support and let her organs be removed for transplant. However, as she was wheeled into the operating room, she woke from what had been a deep coma from the overdose.<\/p>\n

When the state Department of Health reviewed the case, investigators found that staff had ignored signs of the patient’s improvement. They determined that the woman had not suffered a cardiopulmonary arrest or irreversible brain damage. The state outlined steps that doctors failed to take, including performing enough brain scans, and testing to ensure the drugs were out of her system. Further, doctors ignored nurses’ observations of her increasing neurological function.<\/p>\n

Continue Reading \u203a<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Syracuse Post-Standard has just published documents detailing a potentially catastrophic medical mistake by St. Joseph’s Hospital Health Center in October 2009. They were about to harvest the organs of a patient they believed to be dead when she opened her eyes. Doctors determined that a woman who had overdosed on Xanax and over-the-counter drugs […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7],"class_list":["post-515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-medical-malpractice","tag-medical-malpractice"],"yoast_head":"\nSyracuse hospital nearly harvested organs of live patient — Syracuse Personal Injury Law Blog — July 11, 2013<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Syracuse hospital nearly harvested organs of live patient - Medical Malpractice - DeFrancisco & Falgiatano Law Firm\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.defranciscolaw.com\/blog\/syracuse-hospital-nearly-harvested-organs-of-live-patient\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Syracuse hospital nearly harvested organs of live patient — Syracuse Personal Injury Law Blog — July 11, 2013\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Syracuse hospital nearly harvested organs of live patient - Medical Malpractice - DeFrancisco & Falgiatano Law Firm\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Jeff DeFrancisco\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Syracuse hospital nearly harvested organs of live patient — Syracuse Personal Injury Law Blog — July 11, 2013","description":"Syracuse hospital nearly harvested organs of live patient - Medical Malpractice - DeFrancisco & Falgiatano Law Firm","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.defranciscolaw.com\/blog\/syracuse-hospital-nearly-harvested-organs-of-live-patient\/","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_title":"Syracuse hospital nearly harvested organs of live patient — Syracuse Personal Injury Law Blog — July 11, 2013","twitter_description":"Syracuse hospital nearly harvested organs of live patient - Medical Malpractice - DeFrancisco & Falgiatano Law Firm","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Jeff DeFrancisco","Est. reading time":"2 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.defranciscolaw.com\/blog\/syracuse-hospital-nearly-harvested-organs-of-live-patient\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.defranciscolaw.com\/blog\/syracuse-hospital-nearly-harvested-organs-of-live-patient\/"},"author":{"name":"Jeff DeFrancisco","@id":"https:\/\/www.defranciscolaw.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/798006ba40dee3a60d61603f8022a9f9"},"headline":"Syracuse hospital nearly harvested organs of live patient","datePublished":"2013-07-11T00:00:00+00:00","dateModified":"2017-08-31T22:35:38+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.defranciscolaw.com\/blog\/syracuse-hospital-nearly-harvested-organs-of-live-patient\/"},"wordCount":453,"keywords":["Medical Malpractice"],"articleSection":["Medical Malpractice"],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.defranciscolaw.com\/blog\/syracuse-hospital-nearly-harvested-organs-of-live-patient\/","url":"https:\/\/www.defranciscolaw.com\/blog\/syracuse-hospital-nearly-harvested-organs-of-live-patient\/","name":"Syracuse hospital nearly harvested organs of live patient — Syracuse Personal Injury Law Blog — July 11, 2013","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.defranciscolaw.com\/blog\/#website"},"datePublished":"2013-07-11T00:00:00+00:00","dateModified":"2017-08-31T22:35:38+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.defranciscolaw.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/798006ba40dee3a60d61603f8022a9f9"},"description":"Syracuse hospital nearly harvested organs of live patient - Medical Malpractice - DeFrancisco & Falgiatano Law Firm","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.defranciscolaw.com\/blog\/syracuse-hospital-nearly-harvested-organs-of-live-patient\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.defranciscolaw.com\/blog\/syracuse-hospital-nearly-harvested-organs-of-live-patient\/"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.defranciscolaw.com\/blog\/syracuse-hospital-nearly-harvested-organs-of-live-patient\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.defranciscolaw.com\/blog\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Syracuse hospital nearly harvested organs of live patient"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.defranciscolaw.com\/blog\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.defranciscolaw.com\/blog\/","name":"Syracuse Personal Injury Law Blog","description":"Published by New York Medical Malpractice Attorneys \u2014 DeFrancisco & Falgiatano","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.defranciscolaw.com\/blog\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.defranciscolaw.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/798006ba40dee3a60d61603f8022a9f9","name":"Jeff DeFrancisco","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7f6660cf0b9e029623b52ccc2e33d1fef7eb66d590325c2b6a1fb85d5ef1e2cb?s=96&d=mm&r=g","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7f6660cf0b9e029623b52ccc2e33d1fef7eb66d590325c2b6a1fb85d5ef1e2cb?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7f6660cf0b9e029623b52ccc2e33d1fef7eb66d590325c2b6a1fb85d5ef1e2cb?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"Jeff DeFrancisco"}}]}},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.defranciscolaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.defranciscolaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.defranciscolaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.defranciscolaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.defranciscolaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=515"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.defranciscolaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":857,"href":"https:\/\/www.defranciscolaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515\/revisions\/857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.defranciscolaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.defranciscolaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.defranciscolaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}