McATEER v. ARDEN HILL HOSP.


170 A.D.2d 758 (1991)

Noelle McAteer, an Infant, by Walter McAteer, Her Father and Natural Guardian, Appellant, v. Arden Hill Hospital et al., Respondents

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

February 7, 1991


Harvey, J.

Plaintiff in this medical malpractice action was born on October 31, 1981 at defendant Arden Hill Hospital following a placental abruption, a condition in which a normally implanted placenta prematurely separates from the uterine wall. Plaintiff was born in a severely depressed state and, upon taking her first breath, apparently inhaled an undetermined quantity of the meconium (fetal feces) that thickly covered her at birth. The obstetrician...

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