Order unanimously reversed, with costs, and motion denied.
Memorandum:
Plaintiff's decedent died of cardiac arrest shortly after receiving a general anesthesia containing a mixture of oxygen and nitrous oxide. Two weeks later another patient at defendant hospital died of nitrous oxide poisoning after being anesthetized. Shortly thereafter a third patient almost died while being anesthetized before it was discovered that the hoses to the oxygen tank and the...
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