CONWAY, Ark. (Legal Newsline) - Arkansas health care providers face a wrongful death lawsuit after a woman passed in March 2020 just four days after giving birth to her second child.
Lauren Remedios died during an exploratory laparotomy and abdominal hysterectomy after requesting she be taken to a different hospital, a lawsuit filed Feb. 22 in Faulkner County Circuit Court says. Among the defendants are Conway Regional Medical Center, Renaissance Women's Center and Conway Women's Health Center.
Remedios was just 27 years old.
Remedios' troubles began shortly after March 26, 2020, when she gave birth to a boy. Two days later, she developed a fever of 102 degrees and abdominal pain and was readmitted to CRMC but was discharged with instructions to return if her symptoms worsened.
That's what happened, and she came back to CRMC on March 29. A CT scan showed a "very enlarged" uterus that was likely infected.
Doctors planned an antibiotic treatment, the suit says, but Remedios "and her family requested that (she) be transferred to the (University of Arkansas Medical Services) for a higher level of care."
Doctors then planned a hysterectomy at CRMC. The suit says Remedios' plea to be transferred was ignored, and she coded following the surgery.
"CPR was started and the patient regained a pulse, but efforts to resuscitate the patient were ultimately unsuccessful and she died," the suit says.