Our litigators represented two colorectal surgeons during a 5-day trial involving the death of a patient from ischemic small bowel obstruction. Plaintiff claimed that there was a collective failure by the surgeons to order a CT scan of the abdomen upon admission to the hospital. During trial, the litigation team demonstrated that the Plaintiff’s symptoms did not require a CT scan of the abdomen, but that an abdominal x-ray was an appropriate first-line study. The jury returned a complete defense verdict in less than an hour.