$900,000

Key Details

Settlement Amount:

$900,000

Location:

Ohio

Practice Area:

Medical Malpractice

Preview:

An emergency room physician failed to recognize the signs of an impending heart attack and discharged the patient prematurely — the patient went home and died of the cardiac event the ER doctor missed.

Content:

An emergency room physician failed to recognize the signs of an impending heart attack and prematurely discharged the patient from the emergency department. The patient returned home and died as a result of the cardiac event that the ER physician had failed to identify and treat.

Emergency medicine physicians are specifically trained to recognize the signs and symptoms of acute cardiac events and are expected to perform and properly interpret the diagnostic tests — including ECGs and cardiac enzyme panels — necessary to detect heart attacks. A failure to make a correct cardiac diagnosis and to keep the patient for appropriate monitoring and treatment falls below the accepted standard of care in emergency medicine.

Lowe Trial Lawyers held the medical provider accountable for this preventable death and secured a $900,000 settlement for the patient's family, recognizing both the loss of their loved one and the physician's departure from the required standard of care.