A Pennsylvania teenager had to be resuscitated in March when he went into cardiac arrest after he drank Panera Breads highly caffeinated Charged Lemonade, a lawsuit says.
The suit, obtained first by NBC News, was filed Monday in U.S. District Court for Eastern Pennsylvania just under two weeks after Panera announced it was discontinuing the controversial beverage. It is at least the fourth lawsuit filed against the bakery-cafe chain over the drink, which previous suits have blamed for two deaths and a womans permanent health problems.
Panera has denied wrongdoing in legal documents. It did not immediately respond to questions about Mondays lawsuit.
The complaint alleges that Luke Adams, 18, had no known health issues when he bought a chicken sandwich and a large Charged Lemonade on March 9 in his hometown, Monroeville. That evening, Adams went to a movie theater with friends. While they were watching the film, a friend heard Adams making unusual sounds, the suit says. The friend then realized Adams had become unresponsive.
Two nurses and a cardiologist who happened to be in the theater performed CPR, the lawsuit said. They also used an automated external defibrillator to shock Adams heart which undoubtedly helped his chances of surviving, said Dr. Andrew Pogozelski, the cardiologist who has treated Adams since the incident.
He was about as close as you can come to being dead, said Pogozelski, chief of cardiology at Allegheny Health Networks Forbes Hospital in Monroeville. This was about as unlucky as you can get for this to happen to an 18-year-old, otherwise healthy person but about as lucky as you can get for people in the movie theater to know what they were doing.
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