{"id":1172,"date":"2013-05-04T21:16:12","date_gmt":"2013-05-05T03:16:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cerebral-palsy-medicalmalpractice.com\/blog\/?p=1172"},"modified":"2013-05-04T21:16:12","modified_gmt":"2013-05-05T03:16:12","slug":"medical-malpractice-charged-over-brain-damaged-teen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cerebral-palsy-medicalmalpractice.com\/blog\/2013\/05\/medical-malpractice-charged-over-brain-damaged-teen.html","title":{"rendered":"Medical Malpractice Charged Over Brain-Damaged Teen"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>A family has filed a medical malpractice suit after their teenaged daughter sustained traumatic brain injury after going to a hospital for a routine procedure, according to WABC-TV in New York.<\/p>\r\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/abclocal.go.com\/wabc\/story?section=news\/local\/northern_suburbs&amp;id=9089635\">http:\/\/abclocal.go.com\/wabc\/story?section=news\/local\/northern_suburbs&amp;id=9089635<\/a><\/p>\r\n<p>The lawsuit alleges that Raina Ferraro, now 19, suffered brain damage and is now blind and almost deaf after being treated at Phelps Memorial Hospital in Sleepy Hollow, N.Y.<\/p>\r\n<p>Raina went to the hospital in January to get a stomach ailment she had checked out, WABC said. Physicians did an endoscopy, putting a camera down her throat, to try to see what was wrong. But during the procedure Raina&#8217;s blood pressure and heart rate suddenly dropped, and her brain was deprived of oxygen, according to the suit.<\/p>\r\n<p>The medical malpractice lawsuit charges that because doctors didn&#8217;t act quickly, Raina became brain-damaged and will need millions of dollars of special care for the rest of her life, WABC reported.<\/p>\r\n<p>Phelps Memorial Hospital declined to comment.<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A family has filed a medical malpractice suit after their teenaged daughter sustained traumatic brain injury after going to a hospital for a routine procedure, according to WABC-TV in New York. http:\/\/abclocal.go.com\/wabc\/story?section=news\/local\/northern_suburbs&amp;id=9089635 The lawsuit alleges that Raina Ferraro, now 19, suffered brain damage and is now blind and almost deaf after being treated at Phelps [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[4,653,654,451],"class_list":["post-1172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-medical-malpractice","tag-phelps-memorial-hospital","tag-raina-ferraro","tag-traumatic-brain-injury"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cerebral-palsy-medicalmalpractice.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cerebral-palsy-medicalmalpractice.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cerebral-palsy-medicalmalpractice.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cerebral-palsy-medicalmalpractice.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cerebral-palsy-medicalmalpractice.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1172"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cerebral-palsy-medicalmalpractice.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1172\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1175,"href":"https:\/\/cerebral-palsy-medicalmalpractice.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1172\/revisions\/1175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cerebral-palsy-medicalmalpractice.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cerebral-palsy-medicalmalpractice.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cerebral-palsy-medicalmalpractice.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}