Jury awards $29.5M verdict for woman's death in medical malpractice case

The family of an Orange City woman who died while receiving a CT scan at a health center three years ago has been awarded a $29.5 million verdict.

A Sioux County jury awarded the verdict Wednesday to the family of 40-year-old Carrie DeJongh, who died on June 9, 2015, at the Sioux Center Community Health Center.

DeJongh was at the center to receive a CT scan. She had an allergic reaction to the contrast dye given to her for the scan and went into anaphylactic shock and lost consciousness, said one of her attorneys, Nicholas Rowley.

Roy Slice, the doctor administering the scan, gave DeJongh Benadryl, but failed to immediately take her vital signs and did not administer epinephrine, which could have reversed her anaphylactic shock, Rowley said.

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