According to the Los Angeles Times, in August 2009, $7.4 million was awarded to a child who suffered severe brain damage as an infant after doctors at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center failed to promptly treat an infection.
The child, Paris Campen, was a little more than a month old at the time of the incident. Attorney’s for Paris argued that doctors at the hospitals neonatal intensive care unit were negligent when they failed to administer antibiotics to Paris until eight hours after she began to show symptoms indicating an infection.
Paris, now 5, eventually developed meningitis, which caused permanent brain damage, attorney Diane Corwin said. Paris now has a permanent shunt in her brain to drain excess fluids and needs physical and behavioral therapy, according to her mother, Angelique Campen.
Angelique Campen is an emergency room physician at UCLA Medical Center. She said that she questioned measures taken by the doctor but was repeatedly ignored.
