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MUNIZ v. AM. RED CROSS

141 A.D.2d 386 (1988)

Grace Muniz, Respondent-Appellant, v. American Red Cross et al., Defendants, and New York Blood Center of the American Red Cross et al., Appellants-Respondents

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, First Department.

June 21, 1988

Shortly after visiting defendant Blood Center to donate blood, plaintiff sustained septic phlebitis in her left arm that was diagnosed as secondary to an infection of the anticubital vein at the site of a needle stick. Insofar as pertinent to this appeal, she sued the Blood Center for negligence in the procedure used to extract her blood, known as a venipuncture in medical terminology, and the manufacturer of the needle used by...

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