The woman, who had just received her nursing doctorate degree earlier in May 2022 and had been hired as a nurse practitioner in a hospital, was in stable medical condition after the surgery….medicalmalpracticelawyers, $4.5M Iowa Medical Malpractice Settlement Approved For 31-Year-Old Woman Who Died After Routine Hysterectomy
She was provided a Dilaudid pump for postoperative analgesia and she had received epidural gabapentin before she was sent to recovery. Despite having risk factors, including being overweight and having a history of taking anti-anxiety medication, she was not provided oxygen or cardiac monitoring.
When a nurse checked on the woman later that night, she was found to be unresponsive and she did not have a pulse. A code blue was called and CPR was begun but she was not resuscitated until after she was given epinephrine twice. Subsequent imaging determined that the woman had suffered an anoxic brain injury after which further testing confirmed that she was brain dead.