ST. LOUIS – A woman alleges that a medical facility failed to timely diagnose that she was having a stroke.
Kelcey Julion filed a complaint on Aug. 8 in the St. Louis Circuit Court against Washington University and Barnes Jewish Hospital alleging medical malpractice.
According to the complaint, the plaintiff delivered her first child by cesarean section on Sept. 5, 2016, at 27 weeks gestation. The suit states on Sept. 15, 2016, she was visiting her baby at St. Louis Children's Hospital and began to feel dizzy with left-sided weakness in her face, arm and leg.
She alleges she walked to Barnes Jewish Hospital emergency room and waited four to six hours without being treated, so family members took her to Missouri Baptist Hospital. The suit states there it was determined she sustained a cerebral vascular accident, or stroke, and needed further medical treatment.
The plaintiff holds Washington University and Barnes Jewish Hospital responsible because the defendants allegedly failed to timely diagnose and treat her cerebral vascular accident and failed to institute TPA/clot busting drugs to reverse or minimize the effects of the cerebral vascular accident.
The plaintiff requests a trial by jury and seeks damages of more than $50,000, plus costs of this action. She is represented by Eugene H. Fahrenkrog Jr. in Clayton.
St. Louis Circuit Court case number 1822-CC10934