FAYETTEVILLE — An emergency room doctor was not negligent in her care of a man whose appendix burst during surgery, a Washington County Circuit Court jury determined.
Jeremy Antley went to the emergency room at Northwest Medical Center on Aug. 19, 2007, complaining of abdominal pain. Dr. Faye Armstrong-Papp diagnosed Antley as having appendicitis and performedsurgery. The swollen and inflamed organ burst just as Armstrong-Papp was removing it, according to the lawsuit.
Armstrong-Papp’s attorney, Mark Dossett, told jurors Armstrong-Papp correctly diagnosed and treated Antley, removing the appendix and cleaning the wound thoroughly.
Armstrong gave Antley antibiotics to prevent infection before performing the emergency surgery but they weren’t effective on onetype of bacteria that was present in Antley’s wound, Dossett said.
Antley contended Armstrong-Papp should have used post-operative antibiotics, left the wound open to drain, cultured bacteria to identify what was present in the wound and followed up more closely rather than cleaning it out and closing the wound.
The jury found for Amstrong-Papp on Tuesday night.
News, Pages 4 on 11/05/2009
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