PENSACOLA, Florida –
The lawyer of a girl whose husband died at a Florida hospital says the surgeon eliminated the incorrect organ.
The couple was visiting their rental property in Okaloosa County when William Bryan, 70, started experiencing left-sided flank ache.
They went to Ascension Sacred Coronary heart Emerald Coast Hospital, the place docs had been to take away his spleen. As a substitute, the lawyer says, Bryan’s liver was eliminated.
“Throughout this operation, Dr. Shaknovsky eliminated Mr. Bryan’s liver and, in so doing, transected the foremost vasculature supplying the liver, inflicting quick and catastrophic blood loss leading to loss of life,” a information launch from the lawyer reads. “The surgeon proceeded with labeling the eliminated liver specimen as a “spleen,” and it wasn’t till following the loss of life that it was recognized that the organ eliminated was truly Mr. Bryan’s liver, versus the spleen.”
The surgeon allegedly instructed the person’s spouse, Beverly Bryan, that the “spleen” was so diseased that it was 4 occasions greater than typical and had migrated to the opposite facet of her husband’s physique.
“The household was knowledgeable that Mr. Bryan’s spleen, the foundation of his authentic symptom profile upon presentation to the hospital, was nonetheless in his physique and appeared with a small cyst on its floor,” the information launch says.
The person’s spouse is in search of felony and civil proceedings and stated, “My husband died whereas helpless on the working room desk by Dr. Shaknovsky. I don’t need anybody else to die resulting from his incompetence at a hospital that ought to have identified or knew he had beforehand made drastic, life-altering surgical errors.”
The docs named within the incident are Dr. Thomas Shaknovsky, Common Surgeon, and Dr. Christopher Bacani, Chief Medical Officer.
