![]() Maybe it’s arty shots of your offices, beautiful outdoor angles, or pictures of team members you’ve convinced to act as stand-in models (we recommend using treats as a persuasion tactic). ![]() If you have a photographer at your disposal – or someone on your team who enjoys photography as a side hobby – have them spend a couple of days taking photos that fit your brand guidelines. ![]() Luckily, more than $12.5M was assigned to damages for past and future medical expenses and loss of earnings capacity, which is not capped, and some of that will be used to teach Amy how to communicate with her eyes.As much as feasible, avoid using images that any other brand can download and use in their Tweets. Unfortunately, Nevada has a cap on pain and suffering damages, so that portion was reduced to $350,000, which Claggett plans to appeal as unconstitutional. It was a good move as the jury then returned a $47 million verdict for Amy Geiler. Defense came to Claggett during jury deliberations to make an offer, which was rejected as being too low. The Claggett & Sykes team presented the animation during the trial and it went a long way towards helping the jury comprehend what happened and how it happened. Her best hope for the future is to learn how to communicate with her eyes since those are the only non-paralyzed muscles in her body. The images included of her pre- and post-trauma also illustrated the huge change to her life. It was imperative that the jury knew that this was a completely avoidable situation had the hospitals and staff involved managed it correctly and that it was only through their actions that Amy Geiler was stuck in a body she could no longer control and never would again. ![]() The Claggett & Sykes team reached out to Focus Graphics to create an animation that would explain hyponatremia, osmosis, and the resulting demyelination of the cells in Amy Geiler’s brian stem in a way that the jury would understand. Some defendants chose to settle, leaving three big ones – the original doctor at MountainView, Dr Ejo John MountainView Hospital and Dr Amit Valera. This extremely complex case was brought to Claggett & Sykes where Shirley Blazich and Jennifer Morales took on the case along with Sean Claggett.Ĭlaggett knew this was going to be a very difficult case given how many defendants there were and the damage that resulted from their actions. This damage to her brain stem caused by the rapid correction of her sodium levels resulted in “locked-in” syndrome, a condition in which the patient has full awareness of their surroundings and can think and reason, but cannot speak or move anything but the eyes. ODS is considered by many to be the worst injury known in medicine. The combination of giving too much saline, water dyerisa, and the failure to run stat labs, Amy’s sodium overcorrected at more than double the safe amount which caused Osmotic Demyelination Syndrome, an extensive, irreversible brain injury. Marshall, administered even more saline, despite Amy displaying clear signs of water dyerisa. Once admitted to Mountain’s Edge, due to a severe breakdown in the continuity of care between the two hospitals, including failure to share critical lab results, the admitting doctor, Dr. Valera intervened into Amy’s care, he did not have any competency in caring for patients with hyponatremia. Valera intervened into Amy Geiler’s care by texting the hospitalist to ask that Amy be transferred to Mountain’s Edge Hospital, where he was the chief medical officer.Īt the time Dr. Amit Valera, was not board certified and thus not qualified to be given privileges at MountainView Hospital. The hospitalist worked for a group, and his boss, Dr. Within minutes of taking over the care of Amy Geiler, the hospitalist chose to transfer her based upon his mistaken belief that Amy Geiler’s insurance would not cover her care at their facility. MountainView Hospital’s policy would not allow the emergency room doctor to admit patients, so despite the ER doctor wanting the patient to be admitted, he was forced to transfer care to a hospitalist. Upon arriving and being examined, it was determined that her sodium levels were dangerously low (hyponatremia) and she was dehydrated, so saline was administered rapidly to try to stabilize her. A fall one evening prompted Amy Geiler’s family to take her to MountainView Hospital’s emergency room for treatment.
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