A jury in Largo, Florida recently awarded more than $3.8 million to a woman whose brain was injured when an intravenous tube was removed at a hospital three years ago. The woman suffered a stroke and brain damage when removal of a central line — an intravenous tube inserted into the large veins of the neck or chest — at Largo Medical Center caused an air embolism, according to a lawsuit against the hospital and the nurse who removed the line.

The woman suffers from paralysis and cognition problems, her attorney said. The hospital’s attorneys argued that the line’s removal did not cause the injury and that "some or all of these damages" were based on pre-existing conditions.

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