 
Medical Malpractice Defense Verdict
On January 28, 2005, following a three-week jury trial in Riverhead (Suffolk County), NY, Scott W. Bermack won a defense verdict on behalf of an anesthesiologist charged with improperly giving spinal anesthesia to an anti-coagulated patient. The patient, who now suffers from severe nerve damage to both legs, claimed she developed a spinal hematoma in her thoracic spine as a result of the procedure. On behalf of the doctor, we proved to the satisfaction of the jury, that the spinal anesthesia was appropriate since the warfarin anti-coagulation therapy, which was started the night before her surgery, had not yet caused a hypercoagulative state. Moreover, we argued that the spinal lesion that led to her current disability was actually a calcified herniated thoracic disc, entirely unrelated to the spinal anesthesia.
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