The lawsuit states that the solution used during the boys’ operations was recalled by NECC after authorities discovered widespread bacterial and fungal contamination throughout NECC’s facilities. The lawsuits filed on behalf of the young boys, which also name the owners of NECC as defendants, are the first relating to injuries from a contaminated heart drug.Ĭardioplegia solution is used during complicated heart surgeries to suspend cardiac activity. NECC is also the target of state and federal criminal probes. According to the CDC, 750 people from 20 states are now being treated for infections from those tainted spinal injections, but none of them are from Nevada. Until now, the primary focus of lawsuits against NECC nationwide has been on contaminated steroid injections doctors administer for lower back pain. In October 2012, the FDA issued a warning that cardioplegia may be contaminated.īoth lawsuits allege that the boys developed serious infections from the cardioplegia solution and that they spent more than a month in critical condition before dying. 18, 2012 from Sunrise that the drug given their sons on the days of their 2012 operations had been recalled.
Food and Drug Administration.”īoth Katrina Eldeth, Ari’s mother, and Alan Zucharzewski, Zacharie’s father, learned in letters dated Oct. Because of Sunrise’s commitment to quality care and the safety of its patients, we notified these patients out of an abundance of caution as advised by U.S. To the best of our knowledge, the medications have not currently been confirmed as causing infections and authorities believe the risk is very low.
However, a small number of our patients had already received doses of medication from NECC. “As soon as Sunrise Hospital and Medical Center learned some New England Compounding Center products had been recalled, we immediately pulled all NECC products from our inventory. Spokesman Brendan Bussmann explained Sunrise’s position:
John Thornton, a California lawyer handling the cases along with attorney Peter Wetherall of Las Vegas, charged: “Hospitals that chose to outsource their drugs from NECC would have discovered irregularities had they followed recognized standards to confirm sterility.” The two youngsters underwent open heart surgery at Sunrise. They did so, according to the suit filed last week, largely because the pharmacy offered cheaper prices.Īlso contends Sunrise did not follow recognized standards to confirm the drug’s safety.įiled on behalf of the families of 6-year-old Zacharie Nicholas Rood-Sucharzewski and 4-year-old Ari Thomas Gomez, the lawsuits charge that Sunrise bought contaminated cardioplegia solution in bulk from the New England Compounding Center (NECC), an unaccredited compounding pharmacy responsible last year for an outbreak of fungal meningitis in the United States that the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says has caused 64 deaths. Sunrise Hospital and Medical Center and its director of pharmacy, Wilson Chu, purchased a contaminated cardiac drug from an unaccredited compounding pharmacy that ultimately led to the 2012 deaths of two Las Vegas children, two lawsuits filed in U.S. There is an intensive care unit and inpatient surgical unit located in the tower, as well.Lawsuits filed against Sunrise Hospital and Medical Center in child deaths The helicopter pad can support helicopters from Black Hawk to Boeing. We will move everybody from the old ED to the new ED very early in the morning, and we will start fresh,” Sondereker said. “We see 300 to 324 patients a day, with 100 ambulances EMS a day. Other features include a new ambulance bay, which can accommodate up to 17 ambulances at one time.ĭorita Sondereker for Sunrise Hospital says they are the busiest emergency room in the valley, so this new Emergency Department will help serve more patients. The new tower is a 182,000 square feet campus expansion and features a new trauma and emergency department. The hospital’s new state-of-the-art new tower held its final grand opening phase with the lighting of the ER sign, which means it is ready to receive patients. Sunrise Hospital flipped the switch, revealing their new adult ER featuring more than one hundred beds. LAS VEGAS (KLAS) - After years of planning and millions in construction, Sunrise Hospital opened its new, expanded emergency room Tuesday morning.
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