TAMPA, Fla. (Legal Newsline) - General Electric faces a wrongful death lawsuit alleging a Florida woman died as a result of a defective Dash 4000 Patient Monitor.
The lawsuit was filed Feb. 16 in Hillsborough County Circuit Court by the Estate of Nicole Octavia Key, who died in May 2020 at South Bay Hospital. The suit says she became brain-dead because the GE monitor didn't notify hospital staff in time that she had gone into cardiac arrest.
She had presented to the emergency room on May 24 with abdominal and chest pain, nausea and vomiting.
"Between 10 a.m. and 11 a.m., Ms. Key went into cardiac arrest, but because of a malfunction and failure to alarm by the Dash 4000 Patient Monitor, emergency room nurses and physicians were not immediately notified of Ms. Key's cardiac arrest," the lawsuit says.
The delay in treatment resulted in Key coding five times and becoming brain-dead at only 26 years old, the suit says. She later passed away.
Attorneys at Morgan & Morgan's Orlando office are pursuing the lawsuit.