Almost 14 years after a young mother was left with permanent brain damage during a surgical procedure at Augusta’s Medical College of Georgia, a Columbia County jury has ordered a company that makes and markets a widely used device for controlling bleeding during surgery to pay more than $2.3 million to the woman.
The incident occurred in December 1994, as Dr. Leo Plouffe Jr. was performing laparoscopic surgery on Onei Gue Keenan using an Argon Beam Coagulator, which uses a beam of argon gas to congeal the blood flow from tissues. Plouffe was manipulating the device through a tube inserted into the woman’s abdomen, said Alston & Bird partner Judson Graves, who represented the doctor and his insurer.
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