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After a life-threatening medical incident during a chiropractor’s session, a guy in his 20s was left with locked-in syndrome.
A rare neurological illness that effectively paralyses people took hold after an event in October 2015, and Jonathan Buckelew’s close ones said he ‘lost every part of his existence’.
According to Atalanta News First (ANF), the 34-year-old had a chiropractic neck treatment when he abruptly became lightheaded, confused, and unresponsive.
According to court filings, Jonathan was sent to North Fulton Hospital in the US state of Georgia, but the doctors there were unable to diagnose his condition.
Unfortunately, he was having a severe brain stem stroke, and because the professionals missed it, the young man lost valuable time to stop the damage.
After a day without a diagnosis, Jonathan was diagnosed with locked-in syndrome, which is characterised by consciousness but no verbal communication or movement other than eye motions.
His lawyer, Lloyd Bell, explained, “Jonathan was having a stroke when he came to the hospital, and they missed it. The people who were responsible for reading the radiographs misread it.”
“The ER doctor saw this patient was having all these signs and symptoms of stroke and never called a stroke alert, and they had policies in place that they were supposed to follow certain protocols to reach the correct diagnosis, and they didn’t follow their policies and procedures.”
