A jury found that two Wellington Regional Medical Center residents and a doctor they consulted were not negligent in their treatment of a woman who died from a spinal fluid buildup.
Heather Bradford, 30, was taken to the hospital after suffering headaches, nausea, vomiting and a seizure. She was declared brain-dead 18 hours later. The estate claimed Bradford, who had a retroperitoneal shunt implanted in her brain as a child due to an excess buildup of cerebrospinal fluid, wasn’t properly diagnosed. It claimed the shunt that drained fluid from her brain had failed, requiring immediate surgery.
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