Types of Stroke Cases We Have handled

TYPES OF STROKE CASES WE HAVE HANDLED

 

Strokes caused by:

• Clots blocking arteries in the brain
• Neck trauma during car wrecks
• Medication errors causing reduced blood flow to the brain
• Medication error causing clots to form in the brain
• Venous throm­boemboli (DVT) traveling through the heart and onto the brain
• Air embolism
• Cardiac tamponade reducing blood flow to the brain
• Misuse of surgical instruments
• Birth trauma

Negligence of health care providers to prevent stroke:

• Failure to inves­tigate and treat cause of pre-stroke Transient Ischemic Attack(s)
• Failure to recognize or appreciate the warning signs of impending stroke
• Failure to prescribe blood thinners and/or anti-platelet medicines
• Failure to properly monitor patients on medicines known to cause stroke

Negligence of health care providers to properly treat a patient having a stroke:

• Failure of Emergency Department to activate hospital’s Stroke Alert
• Failure to timely give clot busting medicine to patient having a stroke
• Failure to timely transfer a patient having a stroke to a Stroke Center
• Failure of floor nurses to activate hospital’s Stroke Alert
• Misdi­agnosis of the cause of stroke symptoms