A King County jury heard opening statements in a trial to determine if Seattle Children’s hospital bears responsibility for a mold infection that led to complications for a 2-year-old patient. It’s the first case to go to trial from a rash of Aspergillus mold infections forced the hospital to shut down and scrub its operating rooms in 2019, twice. The lawsuit was filed by the family of a boy identified in court papers as H.K. He was 2 years old when he suffered a brain aneurysm that was treated at Seattle Children’s. The family lawyer told the jury that doctors removed a section of H.K.’s skull in operating room 9 to access the child’s injured brain. “The operating room is supposed to be a sterile environment. It was not,” attorney Karen Koehler said to jurors. She said the skull bone was exposed to aspergillus mold in the operating room, which was detected days later. Since the doctors had a positive mold test, they opted not to put the bone flap back in H.K.’s skull. The lawsuit says the plastic replacement part that doctors used instead led to complications for H.K. READ THE FULL STORY: https://www.king5.com/article/news/health/jury-selection-seattle-childrens-mold-infection-case/281-d610d8f0-8c7f-4a61-bfa0-131e386185e4