Endotracheal Tube Dislodgement Leads to Death of 27-Year-Old Woman

Philadelphia and Allentown, Pennsylvania, New Jersey

Susan A. Morgan, Esquire, and Marc G. Brecher, Esquire have obtained a large confidential settlement in a lawsuit against a local hospital and its intensive care staff who failed to respond in a timely manner when a patient's ventilator alarm repeatedly sounded, indicating that her endotracheal tube had dislodged. The patient was a 27-year-old woman, disabled from a rare congenital syndrome, who was hospitalized for respiratory insufficiency. Instead of determining the cause of the alarm sounding, the ICU nurse merely silenced and reset the alarm. Unfortunately, the young woman eventually coded due to the tube dislodgement and suffered irreversible brain damage before she was re-intubed. She never regained consciousness and died several days later.

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