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Hospital Settles when Elderly Patient Pulls Out Her Tracheotomy and Dies.

Amount: $220,000
Court: Cuyahoga County Common Pleas

Plaintiff’s decedent was in a ventilator unit, weaning from a ventilator. On her 28th day, she pulled out her tracheotomy and died 4 days later. Plaintiff alleged plaintiff’s decedent should have been restrained and connected to an alarm.

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