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A patient with obvious facial and neck
deformities went in for a routine D & C. Preoperatively, the
anesthesiologist treated the intubation as a normal one despite the
patients apparent deformities and dysmorphic features.
The physician proceeded to put the patient to sleep with
conventional intubation but was unable to find an airway. Because
the patient was overly sedated, the doctor was unable to timely
awaken the patient from the paralytic drugs, which were used to put
the patient to sleep, after she was unable to incubate and establish
an airway in a timely fashion. As a result, the patient suffered
severe hypoxia and brain damage and died one week later. The matter
settled for
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