Lower Bucks Hospital will be paying a mother $525,000 after a court determined that the hospital and two of its nurses were negligent in a foreign object left medical malpractice lawsuit.

The lawsuit was filed by a woman who gave birth to her daughter at the hospital last March via C-section.  For two months after her daughter’s birth, the mother consistently suffered abdominal pain.  Then, a CT scan administered at a different hospital revealed that one of the 25 sponges used in her C-section surgery had been left inside her.

The scan also showed that the sponge had perforated the woman’s bowel.  Lower Bucks and the doctor and nurses who performed the C-section were accused of medical negligence in the suit.

The obstetrician was not found to have acted negligently, testifying that counting sponges and other materials used in surgery is the job of nurses, and that the nurses aiding in the C-section had to have miscounted the sponges during the surgery.

If you or someone you love has suffered any of the many possible complications resulting from a foreign object left behind, contact the Philadelphia foreign object left lawyers of Lowenthal & Abrams, P.C. at 215-238-1130 to discuss your case with one of our experienced medical negligence attorneys.

Last month, a Pennsylvania woman was awarded $525,000 in a surgical error lawsuit filed against Lower Bucks Hospital and a doctor and two nurses working at the hospital.  A jury determined that the nurses aiding in the c-section surgery failed to properly count medical equipment during and after the surgery.

According to the lawsuit, the woman went to the hospital for a caesarian section in March 2004 and the staff left a laparotomy sponge inside of her.  As a result, the woman suffered severe infection, severe abdominal pain, digestive problems, bowel perforation, and bowel obstruction.

The sponge was found 2 months after the c-section surgery when the woman went to the hospital with serious abdominal pain.  In order to remove the foreign object, surgery involving the removal of 16 inches of the small bowel was required.

If a foreign object was left in your body after a surgery, you deserve compensation for any complications caused by the foreign object.  Contact the Philadelphia foreign object left attorneys of Lowenthal & Abrams, P.C. at 215-238-1130 to speak with an experienced medical malpractice lawyer.