Case Summary This case involves a middle-aged man who suffered a calcaneal heel fracture. He underwent internal fixation with hardware. Within a week from the surgery date, he was showing symptoms of surgical site infection. Within two weeks, the patient…
Court: United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida Jurisdiction: Federal Case Name: Sofillas v. Carnival Corp Citation: 2016 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 139448 The plaintiff went into an allegedly contaminated hot tub on the defendant’s cruise ship. Afterward,…
Court: United States District Court for the Southern District of Ohio, Eastern Division Jurisdiction: Federal Case Name: Kelly v. Bare Escentuals Beauty, Inc. Citation: 2017 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 150060Â Facts The plaintiff was visiting the defendant’s cosmetics store to return…
This case involves an 8-year-old female who initially presented to her pediatrician after injuring her knee on the school playground. The patient experienced persistent pain and intermittent fevers following the injury, and she was sent for imaging and blood work.…
This case involves a male patient in his twenties who presented to the ER with pain in his right hip that had gotten progressively worse over the course of a week. Upon admission, he was found to have a severely…
This case involves a middle-aged male patient in Wyoming who was morbidly obese patient who suffered from an infected surgical incision following surgery. The patient presented to a general surgeon for what was initially supposed to be a routine gallbladder…
This case involves a popular brand of surgical warming devices that circulate warm air through a detachable plastic blanket to regulate patients’ body temperature during surgical procedures. As a consequence of the way the device operates, air within the operating room…
This case involves a fifty-nine year old man with a history of COPD who was admitted to the hospital for an episode of shortness of breath and chest pain. The patient’s respiratory exacerbation was stabilized over a seven-day hospital stay,…
This case involves a middle aged female patient who presented to the ER with a sore on her arm. The patient’s husband had had a similar sore on his leg a few weeks prior to her presentation at the ER. The Plaintiff’s…
