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"CHARLESTON -- A Kanawha County woman is suing Herbert J. Thomas Memorial Hospital Association for the death of her mother.<br /><br />On Jan. 7, Beatrice Fitzgerald fell at her home and was transported to the defendant's emergency room, where she was diagnosed with a right hip and right arm fracture, according to a complaint filed Nov. 8 in Kanawha Circuit Court.<br /><br />Nancy DuVall, Fitzgerald's daughter, claims throughout the night her mother was given Morphine IVP and that the medical record said to give her 4mg, but at 11:22 p.m., the nurse only gave her 2mg because Fitzgerald told her the pain was almost gone.<br /><br />At 2:56 a.m. on Jan. 8, a nurse noted that Fitzgerald was resting quietly with no complaints. Despite no complaints of pain, the nurse administered 20mg of Morphine IVP at 3:27 a.m., according to the suit.<br /><br />DuVall claims while en route to the emergency room, Fitzgerald suffered respiratory arrest and coded, so she was given 0.4mg of Narcan IVP twice and became somewhat responsive.<br /><br />Following the morphine overdose and subsequent cardiac arrest, Fitzgerald's respiratory, renal and cardiac functions began to decline, according to the suit.<br /><br />DuVall claims after discharge from the hospital, Fitzgerald had to live in a nursing home, was in and out of the hospital, and then in a hospice care center until she died on March 11.<br /><br />The defendant deviated from the normal standard of care and negligently cared for Fitzgerald while she was at the hospital, according to the suit. <br /><br />DuVall is seeking compensatory damages. She is being represented by Robert V. Berthold and Christina L. Smith.<br /><br />The case has been assigned to Circuit Judge Carrie Webster.<br /><br /><em>Kanawha Circuit Court case number: 11-C-1982</em>"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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