Patient’s chest computed tomography was delayed for more than 10 hours before he died of pulmonary embolism, and now his family filed an action for alleged illegal death.
38 -year -old Andrew Garbor died at the Sharp Chula Vista Medical Center near San Diego in 2024. From embolism is the main blood clot that blocks its pulmonary arteries.
Gabor’s sister Maria Healey brought him to live with his family Chula Vista until he recovered after a major infection before his death. At that time Gabor worked two San Diego Union-Tibune.
“As the oldest sister, I just felt that the need and the desire to take care of her brother,” Healey said. “Our mom couldn’t do it because she had to do so, so I offered to bring him home and he agreed.”
Shortly afterwards, Gabor began to experience great back pain and wrap in the emergency department in 2024. February 16th He had a hernia that later needed spinal decompression and fusion surgery. After recovering from the surgery, Gabor panicked his sister because he felt he was going to have a heart attack.
“He was just worrying, almost to tears … He said … I just worry that I may have suffered a heart attack. I am not sure what is happening, maybe I have a panic attack or anxious attack,” Healey recalled.
The Sharp Chula Vista Medical Center in California was submitted an illegal death claim after the male thoracic tomography was delayed more than 10 hours to death from the pulmonary embolism, the report states. (Google)
Healey came to the hospital just before the visit hours and found her brother suffering from severe chest pain, distressing breathing and racing heart. When she returned the next morning, her condition worsened significantly and her skin appeared gray, the report said.
Gabor died shortly after 2024. March 4, and the death certificate indicates the cause as bilateral pulmonary embolism.
Healey was worried that her brother received custody – and felt that her allegations were confirmed only after she received the results of the State Department of Public Health at the California Public Health Department.
The report of the report revealed that the angiography of the CT of Gabor’s chest “was completed 12 hours after it was ordered,” the lawsuit said.
“The report filed almost all year after his death and when I received it, I trembled while reading the documents,” Healey said. “I just couldn’t believe what they found, and I felt confirming that he was not to die, that I was right, that something had happened, that it had to happen.”
The scan was ordered by Stat, which researchers noted that the staff “knew it should be completed immediately”.
The interview with the hospital doctor also “stated that expectations were met in one hour … Or there was no meaning (to) order (its) statute,” under the action.
The court’s lawsuit states that Gabor’s computed tomography was completed 12 hours after it was ordered. (AFP via Getty Images)
“I was very angry, very upset because, being an older sister, I felt like I was there to protect him, and I couldn’t do it,” Healey said. “I was told he was in the best place, that he would be given the best care, and that was simply not true.”
July 11th In the San Diego Higher Court, Healey filed a claim with the Sharp Chula Vista Medical Center in San Diego Higher Court, which states that unlawful death, abuse, negligence and negligence. Last week, Sharp, a claim, seeks unspecified criminal and compensatory money and compensation for lawyer taxes, according to the store.
Sharp refused to comment on suspicions Union-Tibune;
According to the national alliance of the blood clot, medical experts say that the pulmonary embolism is most often killed, killing a person every six minutes. Studies have also found that the risk of clots forming a patient’s hospital is increased, emphasizing the need for more preventive measures.
Based on the national alliance of blood clots, blood clots kill around 100,000-300,000 Americans each year.
According to the organization, these stunning statistics are “larger than the common people who lose their lives every year AIDS, breast cancer and motor vehicles for accidents.”