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Baby suffered catastrophic brain injury at Sunrise Hospital

The lawsuit alleges that on May 15, just an hour after Jayden’s breathing tube was taken out, lab results showed a critical chemical imbalance in his blood, making it too acidic.

Five lab results from throughout that day showed the same critical lab values, which the suit says required immediate attention and re-intubation as Jayden’s body wasn't getting enough oxygen.

"About four or five hours had gone by and I didn't get another phone call saying that they re-intubated," Lauren says, so she called Brandon, who left work and raced to the hospital.

"I walked in and I knew within seconds. Something is wrong! He is sweating, he is gasping… and I'm looking at him and he just takes that big breath and that's it," Brandon recalls.

After hours of oxygen deprivation, baby Jayden stopped breathing.

Code blue.

The lawsuit says nurses reported the critical lab values but didn't act because they couldn't reach Dr. James Andrus and Dr. Parvin Dorostkar.

"I don't know what excuse on earth you could possibly have for that," said the family's attorney, Matthew Hoffmann. "Call anybody! Literally call anybody. They are a children's hospital. They have a pediatric ER downstairs."

Attorney Matthew Hoffmann says after Jayden went into cardiac arrest, the medical staff finally did something.

"You shouldn't need somebody to literally die before all of a sudden, they get the intervention that they needed all along."

The lawsuit says doctors cracked open Jayden’s tiny rib cage to do finger compressions on his failing heart.

"And the doctor comes out to me and tells me 'I'm so sorry. It's been 90 minutes that he's been pulse-less. There's nothing more we can do. The nurses are going to get him cleaned up so you can hold him one last time.' " Lauren remembers, through tears.

Then the emotional rollercoaster took another sharp turn.

"The doctor comes back out to me and says that he lifted his arm up when they were taking his leads off. He lifted up his arm and they felt and all of a sudden, he had a pulse," Lauren said.

For Brandon, "It was the lowest point of my life and then it was the highest point of my life because he was back."

But Jayden wasn't the same.

And he never will be.



Baby suffered catastrophic brain injury at Sunrise Hospital