After nearly dying during her C-section childbirth at Maryview Hospital in Virginia, Latarsha Creekmore filed a medical malpractice case against the hospital, claiming that they failed to check her surgical incisions for over six hours. When she was finally lifted out of her bed and taken to surgery, her bedsheets were soaked with blood.
According to the lawsuit, Creekmore had a history of pregnancy-induced high blood pressure. Nurses were ordered to monitor her blood pressure closely after the delivery, but they did not. Over the course of several hours, the mother’s heart rate and blood pressure became erratic. She finally went into shock when her blood pressure became dangerously low and an alarm sounded on her monitor. She is now left with brain damage as a result of the hospital’s negligence.
The doctor who performed Creekmore’s delivery has botched a similar delivery before, says the Virginia Board of Medicine. A series of medical malpractice cases have been filed against him since 2001. He surrendered his medical license after an investigation performed by the Virginia Board of Medicine.
If you or one of your loved ones has been injured or killed because of a doctor or hospital’s negligence, please contact the experienced Virginia medical malpractice attorneys at Chaikin, Sherman, Cammarata & Siegel, PC today for a free case evaluation.
