Opinion ID: 4538751
Heading Depth: 2
Heading Rank: 2

Heading: Medical Treatment in Kentucky

Text: The decedent continued to experience nausea, vomiting, and abdominal pain, and on May 29, 2013, she was admitted to Pikeville Medical Center in Kentucky, but she was discharged the next day. The decedent experienced severe abdominal pain and returned to Pikeville Medical Center on June 4, 2013. That same day, she was transferred and admitted to the University of Kentucky Medical Center. The decedent was “diagnosed with ischemic bowel due to the occlusion of her” superior mesenteric artery. Surgeons at the University of Kentucky Medical Center “remove[d] extensive amounts of [the decedent’s] bowel that had become necrotic. They also performed a bypass of her [superior mesenteric artery] which successfully revascularized her remaining bowel.” 2 In the following two months, the decedent had “multiple other surgeries for her ischemic bowel, leaking anastomosis, abdominal washouts and fistula formation” at the University of Kentucky Medical Center. During this timeframe, the decedent also experienced “complications with sepsis, pneumonia, and renal failure.” The decedent received a tracheotomy and a feeding tube was put in place.