Patient was not properly consented for procedure

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The hospital should have intervened and prevented the femoral arteriogram because the patient was not properly consented for the procedure. The consent forms that were signed did not authorize the performance of a femoral arteriogram, and the patient was under the impression that she was about to undergo a brachial arteriogram. Furthermore, the patient's daughter claimed that her mother said, following the arteriogram, "Why did you let them do that to me?" This indicates that the patient did not understand what was happening and did not give her consent to the procedure.

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