PA Involved in Supreme Court Case
An unnamed PA is invoved in Wyeth v. Levine, which is headed to the U.S. Supreme Court.
Levine's facts present a shocking tragedy of the sort that can overwhelm juries and judges. On Diana Levine's second visit in one day to a local medical clinic for a severe migraine, a physician's assistant gave her a second dose of Wyeth's anti-nausea drug Phenergan. Unlike the first dose, which had been given intramuscularly, the second dose was given by a direct intravenous shot in the arm ("IV push"). The Phenergan was intended to go into a vein, but some of it leaked into an artery, causing the plaintiff - a healthy guitarist in her mid-fifties -- to develop gangrene in her arm. The arm had to be amputated.
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