Court: United States District Court for the District of South Carolina, Beaufort Division Jurisdiction: Federal Case Name: Dykes v. Inmate Servs. Corp. Citation: 2017 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 17019 Facts The plaintiffs, a married couple, filed a complaint against the defendant,…
This case involves a thirty-seven-year-old female who died of sepsis while being hospitalized for a skin infection. The woman presented to the emergency department with a red inflamed skin lesion on her leg which was diagnosed as cellulitis. Although antibiotics…
This case involves a patient who was transported to a hospital after experiencing a cardiac event. While the patient was being worked up and awaiting treatment, a nurse had several failed attempts at placing an IV line and reportedly deviated…
This case involves an elderly patient, undergoing treatment for many conditions, who developed a distal right common iliac thrombus occlusion. During the hospital stay, the patient underwent an embolectomy and femoral-popliteal bypass. The patient also developed cellulitis of the right…
This oral implant case involves a sixty-five-year-old patient who was referred by her dentist to an oral surgeon after she underwent a procedure to insert two internal Heximplant titanium dental implants. She also underwent bone grafts to create a proper surface…
