Jury awards $21m to family of patient after simple leg surgery left him in a vegetative state

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During the surgery Rojas suffered from hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy, a brain injury caused by lack of blood flow and oxygen to the brain.Family upset over $12,903 bill after their son was nearly killed with an allegedly tainted IV bag"A normal day for Carlos, I have to wake him up, clean him up, sit him down in his wheelchair, give him food," said his mother, Wilda Rojas, in Spanish in a video shown to the jury.According to the lawsuit, Rojas's blood pressure dropped while his doctor was supervising four certified registered nurse anesthetists, or CRNAs, all with patients at the same time."As a result it is our position while that may be good business for Anesthesia Partners, it is not good medicine, because there is no way an anesthesiologist can supervise that many CRNAs at one time," said Steckler."I think patients need to be apprised up front that they have a choice to get an anesthesiologist who has 4 years of medical school, 3 years of training and board certified, rather than a CRNA who may have a nursing degree and extra year of training," he said."

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