$1.4 Million: Gave patient too much fluid and caused death
$1.4 Million Settlement
Massachussetts
A Boston jury awarded $1.4 million to the husband and son of a 54-year-old woman who died about twelve hours after being given too much fluid. The defendant doctors had been trying to correct the woman’s anemia by giving her blood transfusions, but had failed to recognize that her kidney condition made her unable to tolerate such a large quantity of fluids. The couple had come to the United States from Shanghai several years earlier. Their son had been unable to get a visa to visit his parents until after his mother died, when he was permitted to come for her funeral.
