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Medical Malpractice ― Nurse not to blame for infant’s leg amputation, jury says
A jury rejected a couple's claim that their son's leg was amputated because of a nurse's negligent injection of vitamin K shortly after birth. The parents of Timothy Houston claimed that the nurse at Baptist Medical Center of the Beaches gave the injection in an artery, when it should have been administered into the muscle. Their attorney argued that this resulted in a clot in the iliac artery and pulmonary hypertension, which led to the amputation a month later.
The defense argued that vitamin K was not capable of producing the conditions that led to amputation. The defense noted that the leg sustained an in utero malformation so that there was impaired blood flow, making an amputation inevitable.
Houston v. Southern Baptist Hospital of Florida Inc., No. 16-2004-CA-004231-MA, Duval County Circuit Court
Plaintiffs' Attorney(s) Matthew W. Sowell and Angelo M. Patacca, Jr., Sowell Pattacca, Jacksonville
Defense Attorney(s) Earl Googe, Michael Harmon and William Kuntz Smith, Hulsey & Busey,
Jacksonville
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