Bainhauer v. Lehigh Valley Hospital

¶ 1 This is a medical malpractice case in which Plaintiff-Appellant, Frederick J. Ba-inhauer, D.O., claims the trial court erred in limiting his negligence case to the theory that his harm was caused by the administration during anesthesia of the drug Neo-Synephrine. We reverse and remand for a new trial.

¶ 2 The relevant facts supported by the record are as follows. On January 31, 1997, Plaintiff underwent a parathyroidec-tomy at Lehigh Valley Hospital. At the time of the surgery, Plaintiff was a 62-year-old adult male who suffered from hypertension (high blood pressure). The surgery was…