WILKES-BARRE — 2 days after Jennifer Sidari was accepted to Geisinger Wyoming Valley Medical Center, medical staff remained perplexed concerning the induce of her bruises and persistent headaches, jurors heard Thursday.
Ms. Sidari, a 26-year-old medical professional that planned to begin a residency in Geisinger’s pediatric program, died of mind hemorrhaging early Might 29, 2013, after a blood clot caused a serious vein in her head to burst. Plaintiffs attorney Matt Casey, of the Philadelphia law firm Ross Feller Casey, argues she was a rising star along with the potential for a 40-plus year job that could have actually turned her in to a highly paid executive — an argument that, if jurors agree along with it, could expenditure the healthiness system tens of millions of dollars.
During the second day of testimony in the medical malpractice lawsuit Thursday, jurors heard that a little much more compared to a half day prior to Dr. Sidari died, doctors and medical professional assistants were still debating just what was wrong — an infection, mind swelling, a disorder that affects blood platelet counts or a blood clot.
Dr. Jessica Zingaretti, Geisinger’s attending medical professional the morning prior to Dr. Sidari died, testified that she ordered an immediate CT scan of Dr. Sidari’s head prior to also meeting her due to the fact that Dr. Sidari wasn’t responding to treatment, her platelets were dropping and she had history of headaches.
Mr. Casey noted that despite the rush order that scan wasn’t finish for much more compared to an hour.
Dr. Zingaretti said that once she met Dr. Sidari, the patient reported she had been skipping the letter “P” while typing on a computer and that she was having trouble flipping pages. In a report, Dr. Zingaretti quoted Sidari as saying, “I’m actually at great at all of the time.”
Mr. Casey likewise played deposition testimony in which Dr. Zingaretti said she believed at the moment that Dr. Sidari was having a neurological emergency.
On the stand Thursday, however, Dr. Zingaretti maintained the initial “at” in the quote was a typo and that the behavior was “suspicious” however not an emergency.
“At the moment I didn’t believe it was an emergency,” she said.
Mr. Casey noted that several examinations she ordered, including an MRI of Dr. Sidari’s brain, took concerning 2½ hrs to also grab scheduled.
“That’s unacceptable for your patient, isn’t it ma’am?” Mr. Casey said.
Dr. Zingaretti maintained that she couldn’t answer that due to the fact that she didn’t already know just what others examinations were being performed at the very same time.
“I wanted it done once possible,” she said.
Hospital records showed the MRI wasn’t completed until much more compared to four hrs after Dr. Zingaretti ordered it.
Physician assistant Sandra Valenti, that was functioning along with Dr. Zingaretti, testified that once she enjoyed Dr. Sidari the morning of Might 28, 2013, she was unaware test outcomes from a blood sample collected the night Dr. Sidari was accepted — 2 days earlier on Might 26, 2013 — showed Dr. Sidari’s degree of a healthy protein that can easily indicate blood clots was 36 times normal.
Although a blood clot would certainly have actually been a leading concern, she said she didn’t already know why nobody repeated that test for 2 days.
When that finally happened, the degree was “off the charts,” Mr. Casey said.
Ms. Valenti said she believed it was a “possibility” Dr. Sidari was having a stroke once she said she was having trouble along with the computer however that further testing was needed.
“Her neurological exam to me is normal. She’s sitting there. She’s talking to me,” Dr. Valenti said, explaining why she didn’t summon the hospital’s rapid response team.
Ms. Valenti, however, conceded that the tunnel vision Dr. Sidari went through a couple of hrs later was a symptom of a feasible stroke and that the quote attributed to Dr. Sidari concerning flipping the pages was problematic.
“That’s a patient who’s having a stroke isn’t it?” Mr. Casey asked.
“Sure,” Ms. Valenti said.
Dr. Zingaretti’s testimony is scheduled to go on this morning.
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