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Ethics Case Of Darling V. Charleston Community Memorial Hospital

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In the ethics case Darling v. Charleston Community Memorial Hospital “the patient in question sustained a fractured leg during a football game and was taken to Charleston Community Memorial Hospital for treatment (Rose 121). This patient ended up having his leg amputated due to complications that arose from a bad casting. During this historical Illinois Supreme Court case ethics were broken and someone lost their leg. The person or group who failed to act ethically would have been the physician and the nurses who cared for him. Why would he have to have his leg removed if they didn’t do it right the first time? That is the question. The bandages may not have been sanitary or sterile meaning that a strain of bacteria could have infected the wound. The bandages could also have been …show more content…

There are many types of gangrene, six to be exact. Those types include gas gangrene, wet gangrene, dry gangrene, internal gangrene, Fournier's gangrene, and Progressive bacterial synergistic gangrene more commonly called Meleney's gangrene. In some cases of gangrene, the infected tissues are removed in this case the entire leg had to be removed. There were many people who could have stopped the problem. One of which includes the nurses who cared for him during his stay in the hospital, that is if he stayed. Another could have been the doctor's superiors or any one of the nurses who witnessed him, place the cast on the leg, however, they didn't say anything thus why they were in the predicament in the first place. Another is himself because he could have said that he felt that the cast was too tight. Let alone all of this happened in less than one day. Meaning that it was most likely the constriction portion, meaning that the cast felt like a boa constrictor was warped around his leg. In this case, the best guess for the type of gangrene is dry gangrene, which is primarily caused by construction, poor circulation, and also diabetes. At the end of this case, the court had this to

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