A wrongful death lawsuit has been filed by the family of a woman who died, allegedly from a drug-resistant superbug infection after being examined with a medical scope.<\/p>\n
The lawsuit was filed by the family of Antonia Torres Cerda, 48, who died in November, and was allegedly infected by deadly bacteria following a liver transplant. The lawsuit accuses the maker of the medical scopes of wrongful death, negligence and fraud and demands an unspecified amount of punitive and exemplary damages.<\/p>\n
Cerda was given a procedure for endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP) prior to the liver transplant, and she underwent a second procedure afterwards. The procedures were carried out with a duodenoscope made by Japan’s Olympus Medical System Corp. and sold and marketed by Olympus Medical System Corp. and Olympus Corp. of the Americas.<\/p>\n
According to the Food and Drug Administration, each year approximately 500,000 people undergo procedures with duodenoscopes, which are flexible tubes inserted down (more…)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A wrongful death lawsuit has been filed by the family of a woman who died, allegedly from a drug-resistant superbug infection after being examined with a medical scope. The lawsuit was filed by the family of Antonia Torres Cerda, 48,…<\/span><\/p>\n