A Montgomery County, Pa., surgical center has settled a case for $6 million in which a 17-year-old teenager died after suffering respiratory distress in the recovery room after her tonsils were taken out.
When Mariah Edwards underwent a routine tonsillectomy March 20, 2012, at Abington Surgical Center, her parents, Angelique Mitchell and Maurice Edwards, said in court papers that she was left unmonitored by one of the nurses assigned to the unit and that the monitoring equipment was either not working or not properly set. By the time Mariah Edwards’ respiratory distress was noticed, she was pulseless, according to the plaintiffs’ court papers.
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