Video Transcript
Bethesda Hospital is owned by Baptist, which is one of the more significant and larger hospital systems in South Florida. Our firm has had a number of cases against Bethesda going back many years. We’ve had cases involving retained foreign objects, such as a sponge that was left behind in a surgery. We handled a case, tragically, of a mother who had a hypertensive crisis after delivering her second child at Bethesda. The nurses and the providers failed to timely treat that hypertensive crisis, and unfortunately, she passed away, leaving behind her family. We also had a case against Bethesda in which a 71-year-old man had broken his arm. He had come to Bethesda in order to have an elective procedure. During the time that he was on the telemetry floor, they did an EKG as part of the pre-operative planning. The physicians and the nurses failed to identify that the EKG had some alarm findings that should have canceled the surgery. Unfortunately, the surgery proceeded, and while he was under anesthesia, he suffered a cardiac arrest and passed away. Again, that was one of the many cases that we’ve had against Bethesda over the years.
