San Francisco General Hospital settles medical malpractice lawsuit for $5.1 million

According to the San Francisco Chronicle, San Francisco supervisors gave their approval Tuesday to a $5.1 million settlement resulting from a 2005 incident of medical malpractice at San Francisco General Hospital.

The settlement is "the largest in recent memory involving medical malpractice," according a city spokesman.

In documents filed in San Francisco Superior Court, the city admitted to mishandling the case a man, who visited the hospital in June 2005 complaining of fever and cough symptoms.

Medical staff determined the man, who was 40 at the time, was suffering from acute renal failure and gave him sedatives, according to court documents. The hospital staff then allegedly failed to monitor the patient following successive doses of sedatives and he suffered cardiorespiratory failure and was "down for nine minutes," according to a medical examination included in the court documents.

As a result, the patient suffered anoxic brain injury and now requires 24-hour care. He stayed at the hospital until February 2006, when he was transferred to Laguna Honda Hospital, where he remains.

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