One case study that I read is about a fifty-year-old male that was hospitalized for a fever of unknown origin. Patient had been diagnosed with myeloid leukemia in one previous year and has been on remission. In preparation for discharge, a nurse removed his central line. Twenty minutes later, patient starts developing signs of PE (SOB, anxious, and nervousness). After obtaining patient pulse ox, the nurse obtained authority to give patient decedent valium. Later in the evening, patient was found to be pulseless and apneic. Patient was expired despite the aggressive resuscitation efforts. The plaintiff maintained that the nurse forcibly pulled the central line out of the decedent’s chest while he was sitting upright and then placed a band-aid
