At about 2:43 p.m., the man allegedly was still in the waiting room when he experienced problems with breathing. At 3:30 p.m., while he was still in the waiting room and had not yet been seen by a doctor, he allegedly experienced breathing problems again. Five minutes later, the lawsuit claims that his Dexcom meter was reading his blood sugar as “over high.” Around 4:40 p.m., the man’s insulin pump allegedly stopped working yet nothing was done…medicalmalpracticelawyers, Missouri Medical Malpractice Lawsuit Alleges Diabetic Man Died While Waiting In ER
Around 5:30 p.m., the man experienced dry mouth. Five minutes later, he became unresponsive, went into cardiac arrest, and the nursing staff then called a code.
The lawsuit alleges that the defendant physician began CPR, multiple rounds of IV epinephrine were undertaken, and an airway intubation was initially wrongly placed in the man’s esophagus rather than his nasopharyngeal airway.
The lawsuit also states that the man “waited untreated in the waiting room for nearly five hours, despite displaying clear symptoms of diabetic ketoacidosis, and at 6:01 p.m., he was pronounced dead from complications related to the condition.”