Taveau v. Brenden

Opinion

JIM R. WRIGHT, Justice.

This a medical malpractice suit in which Linda Gayle Evans and her mother, father, and daughter brought suit against Dr. Horatio Sprague Taveau and others 1 for injuries that Evans received as a result of the misplacement of a central, or subcla-vian, line. Instead of going into the superior vena cava, the line went into the bra-chial artery in Evans’s right arm. After medicine was administered through that line, Evans’s arm rotted and died. After many surgeries and attempts to save the arm, Evans’s arm was amputated. Evans subsequently died from occlusive…