BRAXTON-FOUNTAIN v. UNIV. HOSP. OF CLEVELAND

No. 73555.

133 Ohio App.3d 323 (1999)

BRAXTON-FOUNTAIN, Admr., Appellant, v. UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS OF CLEVELAND; Hodgson, Appellee.

Court of Appeals of Ohio, Eighth District, Cuyahoga County.

Decided April 26, 1999.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Rubenstein, Novak, Einbund, & Pavlik, L.L.P., and William J. Novak, for appellant.

Gallagher, Sharp, Fulton Bonezzi, Switzer, Murphy & Polito and Susan Reinker, Douglas K. Fifner Co., L.P.A., and Dale L. Kwarciany, for appellee.


O'DONNELL, Presiding Judge.

Georgiann Braxton-Fountain, Administrator of the estate of Margaret Braxton, appeals from an order of the common pleas court granting summary judgment in favor of Dr. John Hodgson in connection with claims of medical malpractice arising from perforation of the right ventricle of Margaret Braxton's heart during a pericardial centesis procedure performed by a medical student at Hodgson's direction in an effort to drain fluid build up between...

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