Pain Shot Caused Boy's Infection, Requiring 6 Surgeries, Mom Says
5-25-2014 16:24:00
Jesus Maldonado sued Kaiser
Foundation Hospitals, Kaiser Foundation Health Plan, Inc. and The Permanente
Medical Group, through his guardian ad litem and mother, Teresa Hernandez.
Jesus hurt his left wrist playing
soccer on Feb. 3, 2011, and went to Kaiser’s
Kaiser staff then gave Jesus two shots for the pain, one in
each buttock, and trouble ensued, the complaint states.
“The injection in the right buttock was painful and the site bled freely. The left buttock injection was uneventful,” the complaint states.
Hospital staff discharged Jesus to his parents’ care after
replacing the wrist splint despite trouble with the right injection site,
according to the complaint.
“Jesus was unable to walk out of the Emergency Department following the injections, with almost immediate pain in his right buttock and in his right foot,” the complaint says.
The next day, a Saturday, “Jesus
stayed at home. His right buttock hurt, he could barely walk; he felt shaky,
hallucinating at times and his right foot was painful,” the complaint states.
Jesus went back to Kaiser the next day with a fever of nearly 103, body aches, a heart rate over 140, chest pain, right foot pain, swelling of his left fingers and a tender right buttock, according to the complaint.
“With a sepsis-like picture, Jesus was admitted,” the
complaint says. “Blood cultures were drawn and proved positive for Group A Beta
Hemolytic Streptococcus (strep pyogenes) isolated.” (Parentheses in complaint.)
Jesus was treated with intravenous
antibiotics and transferred to Kaiser’s
MRIs of his left forearm suggested wrist joint sepsis and
abscesses in his hand and/or wrist and Jesus endured “multiple orthopedic
surgical procedures, six or seven in total” to repair the damage, the complaint
states.
Jesus and his mother seek damages
for medical costs, loss of earning capacity, pain, suffering, disability and
disfigurement. They are represented by Michael J. Mandel in