{"id":1002,"date":"2023-06-28T15:12:09","date_gmt":"2023-06-28T19:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/millerandzois.lawblogger.net\/medical-malpractice\/bowel-perforation-sepsis-lawsuit\/"},"modified":"2025-07-08T19:28:01","modified_gmt":"2025-07-08T23:28:01","slug":"bowel-perforation-sepsis-lawsuit","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.millerandzois.com\/medical-malpractice\/maryland-hospital-malpractice-lawyer\/maryland-hospital-infection-lawsuits\/bowel-perforation-sepsis-lawsuit\/","title":{"rendered":"ERCP Bowel Perforation Lawsuit Against Hopkins"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>Pauzer v. Johns Hopkins Hospital<\/h4>\n<p>This is a surgical error\/sepsis misdiagnosis case filed against Johns Hopkins after complications following an ERCP. This case is the 416<sup>th<\/sup> medical malpractice case filed in Maryland in 2016 and was filed in Health Claims Arbitration on August 22, 2016.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/malpracticecases.millerandzois.com\/ercp-malpractice.html\">Another ERCP lawsuit<\/a>, this one filed in Ellicott City in 2017. In this case,\u00a0A woman undergoes an ERCP procedure to investigate abdominal pain, guided by a gastroenterologist from Gastro Associates, considering her familial history of pancreatic cancer. The ERCP, a diagnostic procedure that employs a scope to probe ailments in the liver, pancreas, and other parts of the digestive system, subsequently induces post-ERCP pancreatitis. The woman spends nearly a year hospitalized with severe abdominal pain as trapped digestive enzymes severely damage her pancreas. Now, each meal necessitates a cocktail of pills to emulate the enzymes that break down her food. The primary contention of the case revolves around informed consent \u2013 the patient was not notified of her heightened risk of developing pancreatitis due to multiple factors, including age and gender. Further, the potential benefits of the procedure were reportedly minimal for her. The jury, after rigorous examination of medical literature and case specifics, awarded her just over $1 million for past medical expenses, $1 million for lost wages, $72,000 for future medical expenses, and $3 million for noneconomic damages. However, Maryland\u2019s cap on noneconomic damages in healthcare malpractice cases reduced the last figure to $740,000.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"read_more_link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.millerandzois.com\/medical-malpractice\/maryland-hospital-malpractice-lawyer\/maryland-hospital-infection-lawsuits\/bowel-perforation-sepsis-lawsuit\/\"  title=\"Continue Reading ERCP Bowel Perforation Lawsuit Against Hopkins\" class=\"more-link\">Continue Reading \u203a<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pauzer v. Johns Hopkins Hospital This is a surgical error\/sepsis misdiagnosis case filed against Johns Hopkins after complications following an ERCP. This case is the 416th medical malpractice case filed in Maryland in 2016 and was filed in Health Claims Arbitration on August 22, 2016. 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