BETHKE v. GAMMON

No. 20A03-9007-CV-265.

590 N.E.2d 573 (1991)

Sylvia BETHKE, Appellant-Plaintiff, v. Kenneth GAMMON, M.D., Appellee-Defendant.

Court of Appeals of Indiana, Third District.

Publication Ordered October 22, 1991.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

J. Christopher Warter, South Bend, Charles V. Vaughan, Lafayette, for appellant-plaintiff.

Robert J. Palmer, Maggie Mawby Chipman, D. Andrew Spalding, May, Oberfell & Lorber, South Bend, for appellee-defendant.


GARRARD, Judge.

This is a medical malpractice action to recover for injuries by plaintiff and her decedent as the result of an intubation procedure performed on Mr. Bethke on December 17, 1985. The defendant physician, a specialist in pulmonary medicine, encountered difficulties in completing the intubation that resulted in the procedure taking approximately 13 to 14 minutes to complete. During the procedure Mr. Bethke suffered a respiratory and a cardiac arrest....

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