The Veteran sustained additional disability, including right femoral nerve injury and urinary tract infections, due to VA treatment during his hospitalization in 2005. The Board found that the VA exercised the expected degree of care but concluded that no negligence was involved.
The deciding factor: VA did not exercise negligent care during the surgery, thus meeting one of the criteria for compensation under 38 U.S.C.A. § 1151.
- Claimed conditions
- right femoral nerve injury, urinary tract infections
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating
- Not verified here — check the original decision
- Decision date
- March 19, 2015
- Citation
- 1511795
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Related decisions
Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Whole decision: Denied
The Board denied service connection for vaginal conditions, gastric bypass with residual hernias, bilateral knee conditions, bilateral shin splints, and bilateral foot conditions as they were not found to be related to the Veteran's service or service-connected disabilities.
- Whole decision: Partly granted
The Board granted service connection for tinea capitis, hypertension, and degenerative disc disease of the lumbar spine but denied service connection for sinusitis and urinary tract infections. The claims for PTSD, hearing loss, chest pain, right hip condition, left hip condition, and right knee condition were remanded.
- Whole decision: Remanded (sent back)
The Board remands the claim for service connection for urinary incontinence, also claimed as urinary tract infections, to obtain an addendum opinion addressing the etiology of the Veteran's condition.
- Whole decision: Granted
The Board has granted service connection for a genitourinary disability, including urinary tract infections, as secondary to the Veteran's service-connected urinary incontinence.
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