KUHFELDT v. NEW YORK PRESBYT./WEILL CORNELL MED. CTR.

Index No. 805415/13. Appeal No. 15908. Case No. 2021-01886.

205 A.D.3d 480 (2022)

165 N.Y.S.3d 842

2022 NY Slip Op 03076

Sherry Kuhfeldt, Individually and as Administratrix of the Estate of Jonathan Kuhfeldt, Deceased, Respondents, v. New York Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center, Appellant, et al., Defendants.

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

Decided May 10, 2022.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Aaronson Rappaport Feinstein & Deutsch, LLP, New York ( Deirdre E. Tracey of counsel), for appellant.

Burns & Harris, New York ( Nic Gerschman of counsel), for respondents.

Concur—Webber, J.P., Singh, Moulton, Kennedy, Rodriguez, JJ.


Defendant met its prima facie burden of demonstrating the absence of medical malpractice. Defendant's expert opined that the prescription, dosage, administration, and monitoring of gentamicin, an antibiotic, were all appropriate, that decedent's gentamicin trough and creatinine levels were consistently normal, that there was no evidence of ototoxicity, vestibular toxicity, or nephrotoxicity prior to completion of the gentamicin, and that even if there was, the benefits of...

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