CEPEDA v. NEW YORK CITY HEALTH AND HOSPITALS CORPORATION


303 A.D.2d 173 (2003)

756 N.Y.S.2d 189

MILAGROS CEPEDA, Appellant, v. NEW YORK CITY HEALTH AND HOSPITALS CORPORATION et al., Respondents.

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

Decided March 6, 2003.


The decedent was born in severe distress due to defendants' failure to timely monitor almost nine hours of fetal distress, acidosis, sepsis, and meconium aspiration, and the delay of a "crash" cesarean section delivery occasioned by a shift change in personnel. The decedent's compromised condition required constant invasive procedures during her 12-day life, including intubation and placement in a heart-lung machine for a therapy known as extra corporeal membrane oxygenation...

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