A family in Tennessee is suing TriStar Centennial hospital after their 73-year-old family relative died a month after a surgeon left a needle inside him.
John Burns Johnson, 73, of Lafayette, had open heart surgery at TriStar. When the nine-hour surgery was completed the surgeon, Dr. Sreekumar Subramanian, realized not all of his needles were accounted for.
The surgeon re-opened Johnson, who underwent an additional three hours of surgery as the team tried to retrieve the needle, but they were ultimately unable to remove it.
The lawsuit says the surgeon closed Johnson's chest and rewired his sternum, leaving the needle inside.
'Mr. Johnson's condition continued to deteriorate over the next thirty days,' the lawsuit states, according to KGW8 . 'He was critically ill and never saw his home again.'
The lawsuit says the needle was not removed until his autopsy.
It also alleges his final month of life leading up to his death was 'painful, unnecessary and wrongful.'
TriStar declined to respond to the lawsuit but released a statement regarding the incident.
'We take the responsibility of properly caring for our patients very seriously and empathize with the understandable grief being felt by the family,' the TriStar statement said.
Subramanian has a five star rating on the hospital's site and has no discipline cases against him.
The lawsuit was filed by Johnson's widow, son and daughter.
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John Burns Johnson, 73, of Lafayette, had open heart surgery at TriStar. When the nine-hour surgery was completed the surgeon, Dr. Sreekumar Subramanian, realized not all of his needles were accounted for.
The surgeon re-opened Johnson, who underwent an additional three hours of surgery as the team tried to retrieve the needle, but they were ultimately unable to remove it.
The lawsuit says the surgeon closed Johnson's chest and rewired his sternum, leaving the needle inside.
'Mr. Johnson's condition continued to deteriorate over the next thirty days,' the lawsuit states, according to KGW8 . 'He was critically ill and never saw his home again.'
The lawsuit says the needle was not removed until his autopsy.
It also alleges his final month of life leading up to his death was 'painful, unnecessary and wrongful.'
TriStar declined to respond to the lawsuit but released a statement regarding the incident.
'We take the responsibility of properly caring for our patients very seriously and empathize with the understandable grief being felt by the family,' the TriStar statement said.
Subramanian has a five star rating on the hospital's site and has no discipline cases against him.
The lawsuit was filed by Johnson's widow, son and daughter.
READ MORE
www.kgw.com
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