article_snippet: Her family apnea operation went awry filed a medical malpractice lawsuit on Tuesday detailing the emotional, chaotic hospital drama that included a court battle over ending life support.
article_snippet: Jahi McMath's family claim UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital in Oakland botched Jahi's operation on December 9, 2013; didn't respond properly and promptly to dramatic signs of post-operative distress; and badgered Her family to end life support and donate Jahi's organs, even though Jahi McMath heart kept beating.
article_snippet: the lawsuit alleges that UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital in Oakland's first misstep was recommending a 'complex and risky' operation to cure Jahi's sleep apnea rather than first trying a safer treatment.
article_snippet: Then, during the surgery, a doctor noted that Jahi had a condition that could result in post-operative bleeding but failed to notify nurses and others responsible for a doctor care after surgery, the suit states.
article_snippet: Jahi's parents say Jahi's parents were given conflicting advice shortly after surgery when Jahi's parents reported Jahi's parents daughter was coughing up blood.
article_snippet: One nurse gave them a suction device to clear blood from Jahi's mouth, and another nurse told Jahi's parents not to suction the blood, according to the lawsuit.
article_snippet: Nurses and doctors are accused of failing to react quickly enough to the bleeding, which the lawsuit says led to Jahi going into cardiac arrest and suffering brain death.
article_snippet: McMath's family alleges that hospital administrators failed to explain what happened to Jahi, and that that Dr. David Duran, the hospital's pediatric chief, slammed his fist on a table and said, ''what is it that you don't understand?
highlights_snippet: The claim doctors botched operation by not responding properly to signs of the young girl's distress .
  