An Alberta family has been awarded damages in a lawsuit over the medical care and treatment of their toddler who ended up becoming a quadruple amputee, with the child’s parents alleging the professionals failed to address a bacterial infection in time.
The girl is now 15 and was identified in court documents as KB. She was first admitted into a Grande Prairie hospital on Feb. 19, 2011, when she was 11 months old.
She was diagnosed with respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) and remained in hospital. Three days later, on Feb. 22, she went into septic shock from a bacterial lung infection, according to the Court of King’s Bench Aug. 14 decision….