A jury in St. Louis has sided with Chesterfield, Mo.-based St. Luke’s Hospital and one of its anesthesiologists in a wrongful death lawsuit brought by the family of a woman who suffered a traumatic brain injury and later died following an April 2023 surgery, Missouri Lawyers Media reported April 2.
The patient, Briana Moore, suffered a heart attack during an outpatient endometrial ablation, Greg Minana, the hospital’s attorney, told the publication. She reportedly never recovered from the procedure and was in a vegetative state and under 24-hour care for two years before her death.
Mr. Minana contended that Ms. Moore stopped breathing for 11 minutes and Lisa Nadeau, DO, an anesthesiologist and a defendant in the case, failed to recognize and treat this. He also alleged that Dr. Nadeau falsified medical records.
Another physician who was in the operating room at the time testified for the defense, claiming that “early resuscitation did not resolve the issues because [Ms.] Moore had some type of embolism or other pulmonary issue that was preventing oxygen exchange,” according to the report.
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